Morier (John Philip) Memoir of a Campaign with the...
Morier (John Philip) Memoir of a Campaign with the Ottoman Army in Egypt.., FIRST EDITION, author's copy, title signed by author with bookplate to pastedown, folding engraved map by D’Anville, slight foxing, light browning, contemporary calf boards, re-backed, bound by John Treble of Tenby and Pembroke booksellers (label), 8vo, J. Debrett, 1801; with Anthing (Frederick) History of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski…, 2 vol., First English Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisements, foxing, contemporary half calf, spines rubbed, 8vo, J. Wright, 1799 (3) *** The first item is the only work of the English diplomat John Philip Morier (1776–1853) and an admirable account of his Egyptian campaign. Morier was dispatched on 22 Dec. 1799 on special service of observation to Egypt, to accompany the grand vezîr in the Turkish expedition against General Kléber, whom Napoleon had left to hold the country. Morier joined the Turkish army at El-'Arîsh, on the Egyptian frontier, 31 Jan. 1800, and remained with it until July.
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Morier (John Philip) Memoir of a Campaign with the Ottoman Army in Egypt.., FIRST EDITION, author's copy, title signed by author with bookplate to pastedown, folding engraved map by D’Anville, slight foxing, light browning, contemporary calf boards, re-backed, bound by John Treble of Tenby and Pembroke booksellers (label), 8vo, J. Debrett, 1801; with Anthing (Frederick) History of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski…, 2 vol., First English Edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisements, foxing, contemporary half calf, spines rubbed, 8vo, J. Wright, 1799 (3) *** The first item is the only work of the English diplomat John Philip Morier (1776–1853) and an admirable account of his Egyptian campaign. Morier was dispatched on 22 Dec. 1799 on special service of observation to Egypt, to accompany the grand vezîr in the Turkish expedition against General Kléber, whom Napoleon had left to hold the country. Morier joined the Turkish army at El-'Arîsh, on the Egyptian frontier, 31 Jan. 1800, and remained with it until July.
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