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Auction: 321 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale and Stocks and Bonds of the Americas
Lot: 888

[Ottoman History, Barbarossa (c. 1478-1546)]. Vie de Barberousse, General Des Armées Navales De Soliman II, Empereur Des Turcs. Avignon, Chez Jean-Albert Joly, 1811. 32mo, marbled boards, dark morocco spine, xv, 126 pp. Pleasing illustration of "Redbeard" by title page. A very rare work on the famed corsair, Pasha of Algiers and Ottoman admiral, Hayreddin Barbarossa (Khizr Reis b. Yakup). Well preserved with foxing only on endpapers. Very Good.

Estimate
$650 to $750