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MAURITIUS.- Incidents in the Tropical Life of Singleton Silvertop... edited by Muddle, with illustrations by Fuddle. Port Louis, Mauritius: printed at The Cerneen Office, 1839.
8° (213 x 135mm). 12 lithographic plates by Dureau after 'Fuddle', including frontispiece and one plate mounted on india paper. (Occasional light spotting.) 19th-century cloth, spine lettered in gilt (small splits to joints at head, spine faded). Provenance: J. Alexander Pierson (armorial bookplate).
AN EXTREMELY RARE EARLY PUBLICATION FROM MAURITIUS, UNRECORDED BY TOUSSAINT. Printed in Port Louis by the newspaper, The Cerneen, this amusing and charmingly illustrated work describes itself as 'melancholy and facetious, heroic and pusillanimous, interesting and uninteresting, and comprehending full and extraordinary particulars of the humbug of small and remote societies.' The inner margins bear signs of the printing process, with three stab marks to each leaf.
8° (213 x 135mm). 12 lithographic plates by Dureau after 'Fuddle', including frontispiece and one plate mounted on india paper. (Occasional light spotting.) 19th-century cloth, spine lettered in gilt (small splits to joints at head, spine faded). Provenance: J. Alexander Pierson (armorial bookplate).
AN EXTREMELY RARE EARLY PUBLICATION FROM MAURITIUS, UNRECORDED BY TOUSSAINT. Printed in Port Louis by the newspaper, The Cerneen, this amusing and charmingly illustrated work describes itself as 'melancholy and facetious, heroic and pusillanimous, interesting and uninteresting, and comprehending full and extraordinary particulars of the humbug of small and remote societies.' The inner margins bear signs of the printing process, with three stab marks to each leaf.
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