PIKE, Nicolas.

Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of the Alphanapteryx.

Name: Sub-tropical Rambles in the Land of the Alphanapteryx.
Brand: PIKE, Nicolas.
SKU: 122256
Price: 684.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Personal experiences, adventures, and wanderings in and around the island of Mauritius.

Stock Code 122256

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873.

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A thorough topographical, cultural, and ethnographic guide to the island of Mauritius. The author was U.S. Consul at Port St. Louis.

First edition; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); 15 engraved plates including frontispiece, 4 folding maps and charts, 33 further in-text illustrations, armorial bookplate to pastedown; publisher's original green gilt pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine, slightly rubbed, a very good copy; xviii, 509, [3], 32 (ads. dated October 1872) pp.

Toussaint D1262.

Provenance

Provenance: Fothergill (bookplate).

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