Historical portraiture of leading events in the life of Ali Pacha,

£3,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pacha's life. The text was taken from Beauchamp's Life of Ali Pacha. Ali Pasha was nominally a vassal of the Ottoman Sultan, but through military skill and intrigue he rose to be the ruler of Epirus and the south-western part of the Balkan Peninsula. He was implicated in the developments which led to the Greek Revolution, and in 1822 the Sultan ordered his death. He was killed at his seat in Ioannina by a Turkish mission commanded by Khurshid Pasha. First edition, folio (41 x 29.5 cm), pp 9-30, [2] publisher's list, 6 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispiece by G. Hunt after Davenport, all captioned, uncut in original brown boards, original lettering label to upper copy, neatly rebacked, light marks to boards, a very good example. Atabey 325; Abbey (Travel), 206; Blackmer 454; Droulia 417.

• Binding: Hardcover

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