POUJOULAT Jean-Joseph-François Voyage dans l’Asie Mineure, en Mésopotamie, à Palmyre, en Syrie, en Palestine et en Égypte.

Atabey, 981 ; Blackmer, 1340.

First edition, one of two issus with a slightly varying title, about which Atabey notes: "We cannot establish which issue has priority".

The work consists of 35 letters addressed mainly to his brother Jean Poujoulat and to Joseph Michaud who together had produced the Correspondance d'Orient 1833-1835. Baptistin envisaged his work as a sort of continuation. The letters to Michaud begin from Athens in 1836; those to his brother are dated from Aleppo beginning in October, 1837. The last letter, dated from lower Egypt, is followed by a summary of events in Syria from 1838 to 1841.

The letters describe mainly Asia Minor and Syria and include accounts of the Kurdish-Turkish Wars and a long description of Palmyra. Poujoulat is a very interesting and penetrating observer, and his work is a worthy successor to the well-known Correspondance d'Orient.

He produced several other works on the history and politics of the Levant, including La France et la Russie à Constantinople, La Vérité sur la Syrie, and Récits et Souvenirs d'un Voyage en Orient (see Blackmer).

Very good copy albeit some occasional foxing.