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The Island of Rodriguez. A British Colony in the Mascarenhas Group.

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Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. 117, [2, ads.]; photo. illusts., one folding map; very good in original blue cloth, in original d.-w., cloth slightly stained to margins of boards and partly to d.-w.
Dealer Notes
Rodriguez Island lies in the Indian Ocean some 365 miles E.N.E. of Mauritius, of which it is a dependency. The author spent 3 years on Rodriguez during the Great War and wrote the present work to bring to the attention of Europeans "this beautiful spot."
Author Bertuchi, A. J.
Date 1923
Binding Original cloth in dust-wrapper
Publisher London: John Murray
Condition See description
Pages 117, [2, ads.]

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