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Proceedings in Parga and the Ionian Islands, with a series of correspondence and other justificatory documents. By Lieut.-Colonel C.P. de Bosset, ...
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DE BOSSET, Charles Philippe (1773--1845)
Proceedings in Parga and the Ionian Islands, with a series of correspondence and other justificatory documents. By Lieut.-Colonel C.P. de Bosset, ...
London (Place), published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,, 1819.
xv, [1], 198 p., [1] fold. map; 21.2 cm. (8o)
De Bosset, a Swiss in the British army, arrived in the Ionian Islands in 1809. At various times over the next ten years he was stationed in Levkas, Zante, but principally Cephalonia where as British Resident from 1810--1814 he acquired a considerable collection of antiquities and commenced the improvements completed later by Napier. In 1816 de Bosset was sent by Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta and Lord High Commissioner in the Ionian Islands, to command the fortress at Parga. De Bosset had sympathies with the Pargiote desire to remain part of the Ionian Islands, resulting in his recall and dismissal by Maitland.
Copy Notes Bound (1) with Letter from a Grecian traveller, 1819 (q.v.).
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, black morocco spine-label; spine lettered 'London 1821'. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 1s. 8d., 19 June 1830. (Spiers Box, binding 51).
Reference Number 287
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin; Maitland, Sir Thomas (1759?--1824)
Proceedings in Parga and the Ionian Islands, with a series of correspondence and other justificatory documents. By Lieut.-Colonel C.P. de Bosset, ...
London (Place), published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,, 1819.
xv, [1], 198 p., [1] fold. map; 21.2 cm. (8o)
De Bosset, a Swiss in the British army, arrived in the Ionian Islands in 1809. At various times over the next ten years he was stationed in Levkas, Zante, but principally Cephalonia where as British Resident from 1810--1814 he acquired a considerable collection of antiquities and commenced the improvements completed later by Napier. In 1816 de Bosset was sent by Sir Thomas Maitland, Governor of Malta and Lord High Commissioner in the Ionian Islands, to command the fortress at Parga. De Bosset had sympathies with the Pargiote desire to remain part of the Ionian Islands, resulting in his recall and dismissal by Maitland.
Copy Notes Bound (1) with Letter from a Grecian traveller, 1819 (q.v.).
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, black morocco spine-label; spine lettered 'London 1821'. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 1s. 8d., 19 June 1830. (Spiers Box, binding 51).
Reference Number 287
Additional Names Hutchinson, Edwin; Maitland, Sir Thomas (1759?--1824)