8vo; 225x170 mm.; [2] leaves. Disbound, as issued, with slight traces of having been in a binding for some time. Very fine, uncut copy on large and crisp paper.
Letter of Selim III, reigning from 1789 to 1807, to the Italian peoples on the occasion of the end of the hostility against France, most probably at the end of the end of the French Revolutionary Wars. Mark: “On 21 March 1801, an Anglo-Ottoman force defeated the remnants of Bonaparte's Egyptian army at the Battle of Alexandria and captured the city after a siege six months later. ... On 25 March 1802, the British and French made peace at the Treaty of Amiens. The Ottoman Empire, now the last remaining member of the coalition, made peace on 25 June 1802 and regained control of Egypt.”
Two copies only in public libraries worldwide (Biblioteca statale del Monumento nazionale di Montecassino, Cassino, Frosinone and Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea, Rome).
Harrison W. Mark, War of the Second Coalition In: World History Encyclopedia 12 May 2023, https://www.worldhistory.org/War_of_the_Second_Coalition/ retrieved 8 July 2024.