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BRADLEY, John Thomas.
The history of Seychelles … 2nd edition … Published in two parts. Part 1 – French occupation. Part 2 – English occupation … [With:] Volume II description of its geology, flora, fauna, fishes, crabs, marine mollusca, butterflies, land and freshwater mollusca, its religion, climate, political prisoners and health conditions, also a description of the islands of the archipelago, exports, imports, population, manufactures, guano and distilleries …
Victoria [Seychelles], Clarion Press, 1940.
2 vols, 8vo, pp. [14], 173, [1], xvi, [10], with 20 black and white photographic plates and 1 map; [6], 174-465, [4], 25, [11], xxi, [1], ix, [15], with 30 plates and 2 folding maps; a little creasing to corners at beginning of each vol., a few light marks; very good in original printed blue wrappers; small losses to spine ends, some creasing to corners, a few marks
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The history of Seychelles … 2nd edition … Published in two parts. Part 1 – French occupation. Part 2 – English occupation … [With:] Volume II description of its geology, flora, fauna, fishes, crabs, marine mollusca, butterflies, land and freshwater mollusca, its religion, climate, political prisoners and health conditions, also a description of the islands of the archipelago, exports, imports, population, manufactures, guano and distilleries …
Second edition of Bradley’s history of the Seychelles, one of the major historical studies of the islands. Bradley, a long-time resident of the Seychelles, chief-medical officer, administrative official, OBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Pius IX, and founder of the islands’ resident Clarion Press, originally planned the work as a short introduction to the islands for prospective tourists (the Seychelles was yet to feature its multitude of five-star luxury hotels) but ended up writing a multi-part history of the country, its inhabitants, its flora, and its fauna. In the first part he relates its early history, including a legacy of piracy and later French occupation, and in the second he discusses the islands’ natural history, geography, religion, customs, and daily life. A third part, detailing the history of British occupation, was planned but never published (this may have been due to Bradley’s death in 1942).
This edition was published four years after the (now extremely scarce) first edition of 1936. It was largely intended to correct the ‘many mistakes, misprints, [and] evidence of bad proof reading’ which Bradley had subsequently discovered (‘I feel bound to apologize’, he writes of the first edition in his new preface, ‘and hope my readers should not imagine I had foisted such a work on the public under false pretences’). As well as a corrected text, this copy contains three maps and numerous photographic plates.
