Mauritius

Very scarce first edition of David’s first work, dedicated to Léonville l’Homme and Edgar Janson (cf. Toussaint & Adolphe A. 1411).

Spine lacking; copy cockled.

Rare first edition, illustrated with a contemporary photographic print mounted as a frontispiece.

Tears and small losses to the spine, boards slightly faded at the margins, contents in pleasing condition.

No copy recorded in the CCF and only three copies listed in WorldCat (British Library, National Library of Australia, University of California).

Extremely rare pamphlet devoted to the unveiling of the monument to Edward VII erected in the centre of the Champ de Mars in Port Louis.

Very rare first edition of this theological pamphlet by Edmond de Chazal (1809-1879), a convert to Protestantism, opposing an attempted Catholic reintegration.

No copy recorded in the CCF.

Boards soiled with losses at the corners, some foxing.

Very rare first edition of this Mauritian imprint of a charitable lecture delivered during the war in the island’s second city, by the Solesmes Benedictine Dom Paul Chauvin (1866–1937), preacher and prior of the Parisian Abbey of La Source.

Only one copy recorded in the CCF (Rennes).

Bradel-style binding in half brown glacé morocco, smooth spine, date and place gilt at foot, top edge gilt, sides in handmade paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.

At the head of the title page, an autograph inscription by Paul Chauvin to the Duke and Duchess of Bauffremont (the sixth duke, Pierre-Eugène de Bauffremont, 1843–1917, a noted collector of Mauritian...

Rare first edition.

Contemporary half fawn cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine, place and date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, covers preserved.

A single copy recorded in the CCF (BnF).

The only edition, uncommon. A collection of notes and anecdotes relating to Abbé Castel’s period of study in Rome (born 1894, ordained 1920) during his seminary years.

Some spotting to the endpapers.