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232 - [Mauritius]. PITOT, R., ed.
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[Mauritius]. PITOT, R., ed. [Flora of Mauritius]. Port Louis, printed by Devaux et Cie Chaussé, (ca. 1850). 7 lithographs (out of 17) in small in-folio format (51.5 x 35 cm), enhanced with watercolor. Bound in a contemporary green half-percale cover, with light black cardboard covers (pages unbound, paper missing from the covers, slight foxing, more pronounced on 2 plates). Seven black-and-white lithographs enhanced with watercolor, drawn from life and lithographed by Pitot, illustrating the flora of Mauritius. The titles are bilingual (French/English). These include the fan palm, the bamboo palm, the mango tree, the traveler’s tree (ravenala), the raffia palm, the male vacoua, and the female latanier. Robert Edouard Pitot (1778–1860) was a Mauritian merchant, farmer, and artist (1778–1860). Including 19th-century botanical and picturesque prints published notably by Devaux & Co. in Port Louis. Plates published in 1850 in *Arbres coloriés* and lithographed by Devaux.
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