Pouqueville, F.C.H.L.

Soria, Diego. Istoria della Grecia dal 1824 in poi per servire di continuazione a quella del Signor Pouqueville. Naples: Tipografia all'insegna del Diogene, 1840-1841, 3 volumes, first edition, 12 lithographed plates and 4 folding maps, [Atabey 1158; Blackmer 1576]



together 6 volumes, 12mo (167 x 100mm.), uniform contemporary green calf-backed boards, spines gilt, somewhat spotted internally

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A very pretty set. Pouqueville's history was first published in French in 1824. This edition in Italian is bound in 3 volumes which are numbered on the spines 1.2. / 3.4. / 5.6. However it is in fact comprised of 11 volumes as follows: "parte prima" vol.1-4, "parte seconda" vol.1-6 (with the title changed to Storia della guerra moderna... contenente i grandi avvenimenti dal 1821 al 1824), and at the end there is a continuation "dall'anno 1825 sino alla battaglia di Navarino ricavata dalle opere di Jourdan E. Soutzo" (this latter not recorded in Blackmer 1345 footnote or Droulia, but cf. Blackmer 1579 for a French edition).

The continuation by Soria was first published in this edition, in Italian. In it "the last 16 pages contain a valuable list of ancient, modern Greek and Turkish place-names. Nothing seems to be known of Soria except that he also wrote a historical novel based on the life of Ali Pasha" (Atabey).