Pouqueville, François Charles Hugues Laurent.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Mémoire sur la vie et la puissance d'Ali-Pacha, visir de Janina. Paris: chez Delaunay, 1820

first edition, 8vo (215 x 135mm.), half-title, original wrappers, uncut and unopened, housed in a modern green morocco-backed cloth box, spine gilt

Literature

not in Blackmer or Atabey

Catalogue Note

a fine copy of a rare book. An account of the life and rise to power of Ali Pasha, written not long before his downfall. The work is often attributed to Pouqueville, although there have been suggestions that it was in fact written by Col. Julien Bessieres.