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Stanhope, Leicester.
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description
- Greece in 1823 and 1824; being a series of letters and other documents on the Greek Revolution, written during a visit to that country... to which is added, the life of Mustapha Ali. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1824
first edition, 8vo (210 x 130mm.), hand-coloured aquatint portrait frontispiece of Mustapha Ali, 6 folding or double-page facsimiles, contemporary blue half calf, sides of binding rather rubbed
Provenance
Chapman-Purchas, bookplate
Literature
Blackmer 2598 (second edition only); Contominas 692; Droulia 551; Atabey 1174
Catalogue Note
Mustapha Ali was a Turkish child whose parents were killed during the taking of Argos. He was brought back to England by Stanhope who had been sent to Greece as the principal agent of the London Greek Committee.