Jean-François-Hilaire Mourié - La Guyane française ou Notices géographique et historique sur la Guyane habitée par les colons - 1874

Jean-François-Hilaire Mourié. French Guiana, or Geographical and Historical Notices on the part of Guyana inhabited by colonists, in terms of the white race's ability to work, with its hands, the lands of this colony. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1874, 360 pp.

A small octavo volume (180x120 mm), half-bound, smooth spine (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine. Light browning, very sparse.

Original edition accompanied by a large map of French Guiana, a plan of the city of Cayenne, and a map of the Salut Islands (complete).

Jean-François-Hilaire Mourié offers a geographical, historical, and colonial study of French Guiana in the 19th century. The work examines possibilities for settlement and agricultural development of the territory, the natural and economic conditions of the colony, as well as prospects for European colonization.