SHIP’S LOG. Journal historique de la Campagne faite dans le Levant Par la Corvette du Roy la Badine … Commandée Par Le Prince Victor de Rohan Guémméné […] Redigé Par le Sr. Regis, Volontaire de la Première Classe, 25 January 1788 – 2 July 1790, illustrated with drawings and plans  in pen, ink and wash, on 23 full pages (7 folding), the drawings depicting the Badine at anchor, six views of the Acropolis and other monuments in Athens, coastal elevations in the Aegean, four Turkish vessels and other subjects, the plans depicting the ship (2), the city and port of Malta, the Gulf of Corinth, the port of Alexandria, various anchorages in the Aegean, the Gulf of Smyrna, the Gulf of Salonika, the port of Trieste, the Adriatic, Corfu, the Mediterranean etc., altogether 132 pages, 4to (240 x 190mm), contemporary calf. Provenance: presented to [Joseph Brooks] Yates by a Mr Moore of Paris, 1852 – Henry Yates Thompson – presented to Allan Bright, Christmas
SHIP’S LOG. Journal historique de la Campagne faite dans le Levant Par la Corvette du Roy la Badine … Commandée Par Le Prince Victor de Rohan Guémméné […] Redigé Par le Sr. Regis, Volontaire de la Première Classe, 25 January 1788 – 2 July 1790, illustrated with drawings and plans  in pen, ink and wash, on 23 full pages (7 folding), the drawings depicting the Badine at anchor, six views of the Acropolis and other monuments in Athens, coastal elevations in the Aegean, four Turkish vessels and other subjects, the plans depicting the ship (2), the city and port of Malta, the Gulf of Corinth, the port of Alexandria, various anchorages in the Aegean, the Gulf of Smyrna, the Gulf of Salonika, the port of Trieste, the Adriatic, Corfu, the Mediterranean etc., altogether 132 pages, 4to (240 x 190mm), contemporary calf. Provenance: presented to [Joseph Brooks] Yates by a Mr Moore of Paris, 1852 – Henry Yates Thompson – presented to Allan Bright, Christmas
SHIP’S LOG. Journal historique de la Campagne faite dans le Levant Par la Corvette du Roy la Badine … Commandée Par Le Prince Victor de Rohan Guémméné […] Redigé Par le Sr. Regis, Volontaire de la Première Classe, 25 January 1788 – 2 July 1790, illustrated with drawings and plans  in pen, ink and wash, on 23 full pages (7 folding), the drawings depicting the Badine at anchor, six views of the Acropolis and other monuments in Athens, coastal elevations in the Aegean, four Turkish vessels and other subjects, the plans depicting the ship (2), the city and port of Malta, the Gulf of Corinth, the port of Alexandria, various anchorages in the Aegean, the Gulf of Smyrna, the Gulf of Salonika, the port of Trieste, the Adriatic, Corfu, the Mediterranean etc., altogether 132 pages, 4to (240 x 190mm), contemporary calf. Provenance: presented to [Joseph Brooks] Yates by a Mr Moore of Paris, 1852 – Henry Yates Thompson – presented to Allan Bright, Christmas
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SHIP’S LOG. Journal historique de la Campagne faite dans le Levant Par la Corvette du Roy la Badine … Commandée Par Le Prince Victor de Rohan Guémméné […] Redigé Par le Sr. Regis, Volontaire de la Première Classe, 25 January 1788 – 2 July 1790, illustrated with drawings and plans in pen, ink and wash, on 23 full pages (7 folding), the drawings depicting the Badine at anchor, six views of the Acropolis and other monuments in Athens, coastal elevations in the Aegean, four Turkish vessels and other subjects, the plans depicting the ship (2), the city and port of Malta, the Gulf of Corinth, the port of Alexandria, various anchorages in the Aegean, the Gulf of Smyrna, the Gulf of Salonika, the port of Trieste, the Adriatic, Corfu, the Mediterranean etc., altogether 132 pages, 4to (240 x 190mm), contemporary calf. Provenance: presented to [Joseph Brooks] Yates by a Mr Moore of Paris, 1852 – Henry Yates Thompson – presented to Allan Bright, Christmas 1895.

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SHIP’S LOG. Journal historique de la Campagne faite dans le Levant Par la Corvette du Roy la Badine … Commandée Par Le Prince Victor de Rohan Guémméné [] Redigé Par le Sr. Regis, Volontaire de la Première Classe, 25 January 1788 – 2 July 1790, illustrated with drawings and plans in pen, ink and wash, on 23 full pages (7 folding), the drawings depicting the Badine at anchor, six views of the Acropolis and other monuments in Athens, coastal elevations in the Aegean, four Turkish vessels and other subjects, the plans depicting the ship (2), the city and port of Malta, the Gulf of Corinth, the port of Alexandria, various anchorages in the Aegean, the Gulf of Smyrna, the Gulf of Salonika, the port of Trieste, the Adriatic, Corfu, the Mediterranean etc., altogether 132 pages, 4to (240 x 190mm), contemporary calf. Provenance: presented to [Joseph Brooks] Yates by a Mr Moore of Paris, 1852 – Henry Yates Thompson – presented to Allan Bright, Christmas 1895.

The Badine formed part of a squadron under the command of the comte de Thy, who was charged by Louis XVI with operations against the pirates then infesting the coasts of the Levant and the Aegean islands.

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