[Reunion Island]. ROUSSIN, Louis-Antoine. - Lot 233

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[Reunion Island]. ROUSSIN, Louis-Antoine. - Lot 233
[Reunion Island]. ROUSSIN, Louis-Antoine. Plates from the [Album of Reunion Island: A Collection of Drawings Depicting the Most Picturesque Sites and the Principal Monuments of the Colony ...]. Saint-Denis, Réunion Island, Lithographic and Typographic Press of A. Roussin, 1860–1867. 80 plates. Loose sheets in issue folders (folders are worn in places, with tears and small missing sections due to the fragility of the paper; some water stains and light foxing). A famous collection of illustrations of Réunion Island. A good copy overall, preserved as originally published. Set of 80 plates, including 17 lithographed portraits based on works by Roussin. Accompanied by historical and descriptive text in their original delivery folders, as originally published. Rare delivery folders printed here in blue, beige, orange, wine-red, or yellow, some with an engraved vignette featuring the initials “AR” in an exotic landscape. On the reverse: A. Roussin’s Painting, Lithographic Printing, and Typographic Workshop. Brochure. Mainly volumes 3 and 4 and 3 folders from the first part. Numerous reproductions and views, lithographed or hand-colored maps. A journalist, publisher, photographer, and above all a lithographer, Louis-Antoine Roussin (1819–1894) was a key figure on Bourbon Island. He printed and published books, newspapers, scientific journals, and pictorial albums.
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