ROUSSIN, Louis-Antoine. - Lot 266

ROUSSIN, Louis-Antoine. Lot of plates from : [Album de l'île de la Réunion. Collection of drawings depicting the most picturesque sites and principal monuments of the colony. Études de Fruits et de Fleurs, Histoire naturelle, Types et Physionomies, Portraits historiques (...)]. [Saint-Denis (Ile de La Réunion), Typographie de Gabriel et Gaston Lahuppe and Paris, Léon Vanier, (1879-1883)]. Comprising 61 plates in large in-4 or small in-folio format. In sheets, lithographed in black by Roussin on his press on Reunion Island, sometimes colored or printed on a tinted background (a few scattered stains and pitting). Views, genre scenes, portraits of island personalities or natural history plates, all located and dated, illustrating the famous title by journalist, publisher and lithographer, Antoine-Louis Roussin (1819-1894), a personality from the island of Bourbon. Good copies. Also included: MILBERT. Voyage pittoresque à l'Île-de-France,au Cap de Bonne-Espérance et à l'Île de Ténériffe... Paris, 1812. 2 volumes in-8, 19th century binding (spine missing, slight oxidation). E.O. Without Atlas.