Folio. Volume I: xii, 17 pp., Table of Contents, 703 pp., / Volume II, Part II: 8 pp., Table of Contents, 340 pp., / Part III, 12 pp., Table of Contents, 474 pp., English and French text with translations, List of Papers included in volume 1 but not in volume 2, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, lightly rubbed, scattered foxing, from Bath Public Library with usual blindstamps and label verso front covers, T. R. Harrison, London, 1841.

Synopsis

A collection of 1266 reports, letters and parliamentary papers on the affairs of the Levant presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty, 1841. The papers are Correspondence with the Foreign Office and its representatives including letters, reports, exchanged (February 1839 and November 1840) by the various diplomats, soldiers and representatives of foreign affairs (M. Granville, Lord Ponsoby, Lord Beauvale, Colonel Hodges, M. Guizot, ..) with the British Empire, concerning the political differences between the Ottoman Empire and Mehemet Ali. Correspondence in English, some French letters translated in English.