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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Nicholas Pike

SUB-TROPICAL RAMBLES in the Land of the APHANAPTERYX.

Personal experiences, Adventures, & Wanderings in and around THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS.

Published:  Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London, 1873

Edition: First

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Beautifully bound first (UK) edition of this fascinating and important account of 1860s Mauritius.

The author, a naturalist, was appointed United States consul to Mauritius. On finding a paucity of information on the island, toured the island, and documented the island's topography, culture and ethnography. He gave special attention to its flora and fauna, highlighting the other flightless, now also extinct bird on the island (Aphanapteryx imperialis (now A. bonsai) but also covering First edition of this important work on Mauritius. Includes interesting descriptions of the fauna and flora of the country. There is also an interesting account of the Cape of Good Hope (pp. 35 - 48); and encounters with cyclones

Pp. xviii, 509, (3) + adv 12. Four folding coloured maps, 15 full page plates  (wood engravings)and further illustrations in the text - all present. Handsomely bound for presentation to pupil at Merchiston Castle School (in 1881). Full leather with gilt decorated boards and ribbed spine with 5 gilt-decorated panels and one label; marbled pastedowns. A very few pages have mild water stains but otherwise a clean copy with minimal foxing.

This is a beautiful example of an important historical text on 1860s Mauritius in near fine condition.

Mendelssohn ii, p. 16

  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 14.4 x 22.2 x 4.5cm; 1156g


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