Cf. Gay, 1191 et Playfair, 1310, for another book on the same subject.<\/i><\/p>\n
Born in Marseille in 1809, Ernest Alby was a naval ensign who was taken prisoner during the campaign to conquer Algeria. His astonishing account was published in Paris in 1837 under the pseudonym A. de France, with the definitive title : Les Prisonniers d’Abd-el-Kader, ou Cinq mois de captivit\u00e9 chez les Arabes.<\/p>\n
The author appears under his pseudonym: “Abd-el-Kader fit appeler de France, d\u00e9cacheta devant lui avec beaucoup de pr\u00e9caution les lettres du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de L\u00e9tang et ordonna au prisonnier de les lui lire \u00e0 haute voix”.<\/p>\n
The author has divided his text into chapters, inserting handwritten titles and table, and adding corrections to the text and sometimes entire paragraphs.<\/p>\n
Provenance: bookplate of the author, Ernest Alby, rue Laffitte, 1, Paris, and Ch\u00e2teau de Rosny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2 volumes, 12mo (182 x 132 mm) 2 nn.ll., 243 pp. for volume I; 2 nn.ll and pp. 242 to 497 for volume II. Contemporary half green sheep, flat spine gilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":75783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[552],"product_tag":[1264,1357,1405],"class_list":{"0":"post-75792","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-travel","7":"product_tag-inscription","8":"product_tag-maghreb-2","9":"product_tag-manuscript","10":"pa_auteur-alby-ernest-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Ernest ALBY","chapeau":"Exceptional proofs corrected by the author","adresse_bibliographique":"ca. 1837","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n