Observations sur le voyage des echelles de Barbarie et du fond du Levant en l'année 1731

Account of the punitive expedition against the Barbary states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli under René Duguay-Trouin in 1731, with observations on French diplomatic and commercial relations with the ports of the eastern Mediterranean.

c.1731

1 volume 1 volume: approx. 318 x 245 mm. 16 ff. Unbound.

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, April 1931 (acc.64715)

The work is unsigned, but a contemporary note on the first leaf reads 'ces observations sont de M. le Chevalier d'Albert'. This was Charles-Antoine d'Albert du Chesne (or du Chaine), known as the Chevalier d'Albert, who was a captain in the French royal navy in 1731 and presumably served under Duguay-Trouin in the punitive expedition.

The top left-hand corner of the first leaf is inscribed 'No. 14'