MAISONNEUVE, J. (printer & publisher), and A. RICHARD and others (artists and lithographers). Souvenirs de Maurice. Port-Louis, Mauritius: Maisonneuve [no date, but c. 1853].

MAISONNEUVE, J. (printer & publisher), and A. RICHARD and others (artists and lithographers). Souvenirs de Maurice. Port-Louis, Mauritius: Maisonneuve [no date, but c. 1853].

1 volume (?all published), 2° (525 x 348mm). Without title or text. 47 lithographic plates, most printed by Maisonneuve (20 tinted views by A. Richard and others; 2 tinted hunting scenes by Richard; 1 tinted genre scene by Richard; 21 hand-coloured botanical plates of fruit by Richard and others; 2 large tinted views of Port Louis; 1 uncoloured plan of the island of Réunion). (All but two of the views spotted, or slightly spotted, the three final fruit plates spotted, the 21st plate with a 45mm. tear affecting the title, the 45th and 46th plates with image bound-in at inner margin.) 20th-century green half cloth, titled in gilt on spine.

VARY RARE: published monthly according to Toussaint and Adolphe and here including a very fine group of hand-coloured images of fruit that are grown in Mauritius, together with an excellent series of topographical views of the island. Toussaint & Adolphe Bibliography of Mauritius 115.