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Set an alertFirst edition originally written in French and illustrated at the end of the volume with a single engraved plate.
The English numismatist Henry Perigal Borrell (1795–1851) settled early in the Ottoman Empire as a dealer (in Smyrna in 1818). He quickly became one of the principal suppliers of the British Museum and of the English aristocracy in coins, medals and antiquities.
Small tears to the spine and a more significant one at the head of the upper cover, some light foxing.