Description Pachalik Bagdad Suivie (3 results)

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1809 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 276.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1809 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 278 Language: French Pages: 278.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 261 pp., contemporary half calf, rebacked retaining original spine, half-title, title gilt on spine, marbled end papers, spotting and staining throughout, small library stamp on title page, paper browned. The author, cousin of the 18th century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was Consul-General of France in Aleppo when these memoirs of a trip from Baghdad to Aleppo were written in 1808. He also served as Consul-General of France in Basra and Tripoli where he died. This important historical document which remained unedited until 1899, completes his "Extrait d'un itinéraire en Perse par la voie de Bagdad", and is supposed to be part of his correspondence with Barbie du Bocage (1760-1825) who was a member of the Institut de Belles-Lettres, which the author joined later in his life. As a keen and conscientious observer of the Orient, his notes describe for us the remnants of the past. His family background takes us back first to his grandfather Jacques Rousseau who, in 1705, joined the delegation sent by Louis the XIV to Persia to meet the Shah Hussain. There he established himself as the crown jeweller. From there, his father Xavier took refuge in Bandar Abbas where he was nominated as the commercial attaché of France in the area, then as a temporary Consul to Baghdad and Basra, and was later exiled by the Turks as the Consul of France to Basra. He was freed in 1803 by his friend Sulayman Pacha and was appointed in 1805 Consul of France in Baghdad and his son, the author himself, as the Consul of France in Basra. In 1808 trying to re-establish a sort of diplomatic relations with Persia, the author sent a manuscript referring to the passage of the French Army through Turkey and Persia on its way to India. This project seems to prove that Napoleon had the intention of curtailing the English in India with the help of the Russian Tsar. Upon the death of his father in Aleppo in 1808, the author wrote these observations in his "caravanning trip" to reunite with his mother. It should be noted that at a later date in his diplomatic career he was stationed in Tripoli where he founded a magazine called "l'Instigateur Africain". He was also a major collector of old Arabic manuscripts, which he sold (500 of them) to the Tsar. He died in 1831 as a Baron and member of the Académie de Literature. This work was anonymously edited and annotated by the great French Orientalist Silvestre de Sacy. The appendix contains Rousseau's ground breaking "Notice sur les Wahabis", as well as a "Notice sur les Yézidis" by Maurizio Garzoni, who had spent 18 years in Kurdistan, translated into French by de Sacy. The volume is concluded by a series of "Poésies Persanes", translated by Rousseau. References: Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1962; Wilson 194; Quérard VIII, 233; OCLC 7034932; Cf. Henze IV, 685; Awad al-Alouchi: A Bibliography of Baghdad 835. #34897.