CAPTAIN JOHN BRAITHTWAITE (1696-1740) Histoire des revolutions de l'empire de Maroc, 1727-1728 [History of the revolution of the imperial of Morocco, 1727-1728]

Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier Libraire, MDCCXXXI (1731) 1 volume in12 (6) and 470 pages. First edition of the French translation, the map of the Kingdoms of Fez is in duplicate (Uncommon). Bound in full contemporary basane, flat spine decorated, headbands faded with small lack at tail, marbled edges, first blank page partially detached. History of the Revolutions of the Empire of Morocco, since the death of the last Emperor Muley Ismael (Sultan of Morocco from 1672 to 1727), which contains an accurate account of what happened in this region during the year 1727 and part of 1728. With natural, moral and political observations on the country and its inhabitants. Translated from the English journal, written by Captain Braithwaite (officer in the private army of the Royal African Company), who accompanied Mr. Jean Russel, Ecuyer, Consul-General of His Britannic Majesty in Barbary. He wrote an impartial description which is an essential source for a confused period of dynastic rivalry. The diary account runs from July 1727 to February 1728.