[AUSTEN, H. C. M.]. Sea Fights and Corsairs of the Indian Ocean: Being the Naval History of Mauritius from 1715 to 1810. Port Louis, Mauritius: R. W. Brooks, Government Printer, 1934.
First edition. Limited 'Mauritius Edition' number 65 of 150 copies. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (320 x 250 x 35 mm.), pp. xx, 231: illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, portraits, maps. English text. With foreword by His Excellency the Governor of Mauritius, Sir Wilfrid Jackson; includes a coloured frontispiece, three maps and three plans (some folding), plus twenty-eight other illustrations. Handsomely bound in publisher's original half leather, spine gilt, sides cloth, illustrated endpapers. Condition: Binding tight and secure, minor repair to leather, mild handling to covers, contents excellent and complete. Scarce.
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