[GAUGUIN, Paul].

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[GAUGUIN, Paul].
Tahiti. Without place [Ministry of Colonies, 1890]. In-12 [182 x 117] of 104 pp, 2 folding maps. Board covered with a piece of red pareo decorated with white floral motifs, smooth spine, untrimmed, cover preserved (period binding). Rare booklet published by the Ministry of Colonies, referring entirely to Tahiti, illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text and on full page as well as two folding maps of Polynesia, taken from the New Atlas of French Colonies. Copy annotated at the beginning of the 20th century by a connoisseur of the island of Tahiti and of Polynesia, indicating in blue the trip undertaken by Céline Rott in 1913. The author of the notes also gave these indications on the first white cover: "It is a copy of [this booklet] that Émile Bernard had offered to him, which decided Gauguin to leave for Tahiti rather than for Madagascar. He adds: "Copy bound with a piece of pareo decorated with floral motifs reminiscent of the one seen in the Metropolitan's 'Tahitians on the Beach'." Tears without missing at the folds of the first map; the second map is unbound.
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