FRENCH GUYANA - GUADELOUPE - MARTINIQUE. BILLET : "Institut d' émission des Départements d' Outre Mer". "CONTRE VALEUR DE 1 NOUVEAU FRANC" on CENT FRANCS type 1946 "LA BOURDONNAIS", the overprint on the woman's head watermark. Portrait of the Navigator Governor of Ile de France, on the right two natives in traditional dress, the woman's nudity hidden by exotic fruits. On reverse: landscape of Martinique with a woman's head in profile on the right - in the three margins, GUADELOUPE - GUYANE - MARTINIQUE - RARE BILLET NEUF Maurice Kolsky 701

[Hyde de Neuville] Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies, Compte rendu au Roi, par le ministre de la Marine et des Colonies, des recettes et des dépenses faites pour le service intérieur des Colonies, sur l'exercice 1826. Paris, imprimerie royale, January 1829. In-4, VIII-116p, [1]f. Precious account addressed to the King by Baron Hyde de Neuville, then Minister of the Navy, on the economic activity of the French colonies during 1826. Income and expenditure are calculated for Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana and Mana, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, Senegal and its dependencies, Bourbon (Reunion Island), Sainte-Marie-de-Madagascar, French settlements in India and Indian rent. Full shagreened basane, gilt roulette on the edges, gilt faux-nerve spine, gilt fleurons, red morocco title page, roulette on the edges. Corners dulled, beginning of split at bottom of upper spine, small black spot at top of upper spine.