A Compleat History of the Piratical States of Barbary viz. Aglers, Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco. Containing The Origin, Revolutions and prefent State of the Kingdom, their Forces, Revenues, Policy and C

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Author: Jacques Philippe Laugier of Tassy (?-1748) Year: 1750 Publisher: Printed for R Griffiths Place: London Description: xiv+368 pages with one folding map and folding plan. Octavo (8" x 5") bound in full leather with five raised spine bands and red label in gilt lettering to spine and gilt decorative cover with gilt spine ends. translated by Joseph Morgan. (Querard, IV, 614 - Playfair,° 220 - Chadenat,° 896) later edition first published in English in 1725. This work is an influential description of Algeria, first published in 1725 in French, and expanded here with a detailed list of 73 Dutch ships captured by Algerian pirates. Algeria was at this time nominally ruled by the Ottoman Empire, but retained a great deal of independence in practice. The work begins with a description of the various inhabitants, including separate chapters on the Arabic and Turkish populations, followed by chapters on its architecture, military, navy, politics, slavery, trade etc. It was written by the Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy, a former diplomat in Algeria and at this date commissioner of the French navy and consul in the Netherlands. It was translated into English as A complete history of the piratical states of Barabry , a title that emphasized the notorious Algerian pirates. "Barbary" was not always a unified political entity. From the 16th century on wards, it was divided into the political entities of the Regency of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripolitania (Tripoli). Major rulers during t

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