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128 - (Reunion Island) - RYCKEBUSCH (Jackie).
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Description
(Reunion Island) - RYCKEBUSCH (Jackie). Catalogue of works concerning Bourbon Island and Reunion Island, including those printed locally and general works on voyages to the East Indies, the slave trade and slavery. From the origins to 1930. Preceded by a study on the early days of printing. Paris, 2005. 3 volumes in-4, XXV, 219 pp, [3 ff]; [3 ff], 214 pp, [3 ff] and [3 ff], 171 pp, [3 ff], in the publisher’s red cloth. ‘An enumerative and, above all, descriptive bibliography… In addition to the catalogue of works on the island, this bibliography has been expanded to include locally printed works and also covers voyages to the East Indies, with sections on the Mascarene Islands and the Indian Ocean, as well as works on slavery for which no bibliography currently exists.” 8,140 references and 50 reproductions.
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