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ALMAZAN, Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest, duc d'.
La Turquie. Son Gouvernement et ses Armées pendant la Guerre d'Orient.
Extrait de la Revue des Deux Mondes. Livraisons des 15 Mai et 1er Juin 1860.
Originally published as a two-part article in the Revue des Deux Mondes, this is essentially a detailed study of the fall of Kars. Almazan had served with the Russian army in the invasion of France in 1814, and during the Bourbon Restoration was attached to the service of Louis-Antoine, Duc d'Angoulême, Louis XVIII's nephew. With him he served with distinction in Spain in 1823, being present at the Battle of Trocadero. Subsequently he became French ambassador to the court in Madrid, negotiating the settlement of the Spanish debt in 1828. When the July Revolution of 1830 forced his retirement, Ferdinand VII created him Duke of Almazan in recognition for his services to Spain. He was prominent among the Legitimists who supported the claims of the comte de Chambord against those of Louis-Philippe and the Orléanists.
Octavo (237 × 151 mm) Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco from the library of Henry V de France, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord, title gilt to spine, raised bands, compartments with double fillet panels, large crowned initial H gilt to both boards within concentric French fillet and double-fillet panels the inner with fleur-de-lis corner pieces, all edges gilt, silk page-marker, inner gilt dentelles, decorated endpapers, gold and red on brown. Engraved map of Kars as frontispiece. Posthumous book-ticket of the comte de Chambord to the verso of the front free endpaper. Just a little rubbed, but overall very good indeed, a very pretty copy.
