Mauritius - Lot 674

Mauritius PITOT (Robert Édouard) Studies of trees and landscapes drawn from nature in Mauritius (Ile-de- France), lithographed by Édouard PITOT. Maurice (Port-Louis), Librairie des écoles, (cc 1840). Set of 15 small-format lithographs (A4 approx.) glued or not on mitered leaves, then 41 lithographs in folio. Published by J. Dureau, lithographer and Pitot. Some soiling to plates, a few restored tears and snags, foxing to some plates. After the title leaf, the list of subscribers. ½ contemporary black calf, smooth spine decorated with Romantic irons throughout, leather loss at head of spine, rubbing, one corner broken. rarity. Set of 55 lithographs in a single album, including some 50 plates from the "Arbres et vues de l'île Maurice" series. Édouard Pitot (1778-1860) was an artist most active in the 1820s and 1840s. Some of the plates in the collection: L'observatoire (by St Alme, no. 4) - Montplaisir (Pitot, no. 1) - Église protestante (Demay, no. 2) - Tombeau du général Malartic (Devaux, n°3) - Le tombeau de Paul et Virginie - Église catholique du Port-Louis (Demay) - Bie du Cap - La porte de Josse - Vue prise à Flacq - Rivière des lataniers - Col de Peter Booth - Palma (Devaux) - Église des Pamplemousses - L'amitié (Pitot, Daguérréotype by Dureau, lith. Dureau) - Series of 50 island trees and plants.