SYRIA -- POUJOULAT, B. La vérité sur la Syrie et l'expédition française. Paris, Gaume Frères & J. Duprey, éd., 1861. xxiv, 540 pp. Cont. hcl. w. marbled paper brds. (Half-ti. removed, some minor foxing, but a very good copy). -- Added: Id. Voyage a Constantinople, dans l'Asie Mineure, en Mésopotamie, a Palmyre, en Syrie, en Palestine et en Égypte. Bruxelles, N.-J. Gregoir, V. Wouters et Cie, 1841. 2 in 1 vol. 234; 304 (=300) pp. Cont. black cl. (Spine rep., some minor staining (pp 85-86 a bit worse), but a good copy). -- (2).
Both first editions. - Ad 1: Jean-Baptiste-Frédéric, known as Baptistin Poujoulat (1809-1864), deals in detail with the situation of Christians in the Lebanese Mountains, the massacres perpetrated by the Druze in 1860, the intervention of the French expeditionary force under the orders of General Charles Marie Napoléon de Beaufort d'Hautpoul. - Ad 2: Atabey 982. - Books from the library of Prof. Dr. A.H. de Groot may contain some annotations in pencil.€ 200