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FELIX DE BEAUJOUR:VOYAGE MILITAIRE DANS L EMPIRE OTHOMAN OU DESCRIPTION DE SES FRONTIERES ET DE SES DEFENCES. PARIS 1829 First edition, large in 8vo, contemporary leather over boards, spine nicely gilt, covers slightly trimmed, complete in two volumes 538p.,608p., edges marbled, some scattered light spotting in few pages, text clean and bright, overall in very good condition, a nice copy As inspector general of all French consulates in the Levant, Beaujour foresaw the need for the drawing of new boundaries after the Greek Revolution. It analyzes the natural and artificial defenses of the Ottoman Levant, provides very early routes through Macedonia Thrace Epirus and Peloponnese,explaining how an army would move through the terrain. It is very praised for his descriptions of Ottoman Macedonia, an area left away during Greek Revolution. The used data were collected from several French official consulates reports from Greek areas.




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