[Rarebooks] fa: BARON DE TOTT - MEMOIRES SUR LES TURCS ET LES TARTARES 1784 • Turkey/Crimea

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Francois [Ferenc] Baron de Tott: Memoires du Baron de Tott, sur les Turcs et les Tartares. Amsterdam: [s.n.], 1784. First edition. Four volumes, 8vo (20 cm), in later but not recent quarter calf and paste-paper boards; lvi, 274; 301; 252; 208 pp.; half-title in each volume; woodcut title-page vignette and head-pieces.

The baron de Tott (1733-1793) was a French military officer and diplomat. Upon first traveling to Constantinople as the secretary of his uncle the comte de Vergennes, de Tott learned Turkish and made the political situation in the Crimea his special study. Returning to Crimea in 1767 as French consul, he incited the Tartars to rebel against Imperial Russia and subsequently played a significant role on the side of the Ottoman Empire during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774. Bindings with modest rubbing and wear to the edges and spines; leaves lightly toned with occasional light spotting and staining, else clean and sound, firmly bound.