MICHAUD, M., POUJOULAT, M., Correspondance d’Orient 1830-1831 [8 tomes]

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Bruxelles, Gregoir, Wouters et cie., 1841, complete in 8 volumes, 234 + 244 + 240 + 252 + 260 + 267 + 271 + 274 pages, with a large foldout map in last volume, half leather binding, gilt lettering and ornaments on spines of all volumes, some wear and tear to bindings and spines, library stamps on titlepage(s), Joseph François Michaud (19 June 1767 – 30 September 1839) was a French historian and publicist. In 1830-1831 he travelled in Syria and Egypt for the purpose of collecting additional materials for the Histoire des Croisades; his correspondence with a fellow explorer, Jean Joseph François Poujoulat, consisting practically of discussions and elucidations of various points in that work, was afterwards published.