Le Préfet Apostolique, aux Colons de l'Isle de France. The Apostolic Prefect, to the Settlers of the Isle of France

by Charles Joseph DarthÉ, Mauritius Imprint

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Early Mauritius imprint, printed at the dawn of the French Revolution, from when the island was the French colony of Isle de France; this letterpress broadside, a fine specimen of the typographic art, announces the creation of an Apostolic Bureau of Charity. Toussaint Early and unrecorded imprint from the colonial press at the French colony of Mauritius, then known as the Isle de France. Isle de France was a French colony in the Indian Ocean from 1715 to 1810, comprising

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