Charrière, Ernest.

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 GBP

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Description

Négociations de la France dans le Levant ou correspondances, mémoires et actes diplomatiques des ambassadeurs de France à Constantinople et des ambassadeurs, envoyés ou résidents à divers titres à Venise, Raguse, Rome, Malte et Jérusalem en Turquie, Perse, Géorgie, Crimée, Syrie, Egypte, etc. et dans les états de Tunis, d'Alger et de Maroc. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848-1860

4 volumes, 4to (267 x 200mm.), half-titles, modern green half calf, spines gilt, text rather spotted, minor dampstain to upper outer corner of some leaves, some leaves with overall light browning

Literature

not in Atabey or Blackmer

Catalogue Note

This monumental work of over 3000 pages recording, in particular, Turkish affairs, includes the siege of Rhodes (1521-24), early French contacts with the Porte (1525-28), the establishment of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in Malta, the Turks in Naples (1536-38), Turkish-Venetian relations, the war between the Turks and Persia (1549-1558), the siege of Malta by the Turks (1563-66), the acquisition of Cyprus from the Venetians by the Turks (1570), and much else.