Memoirs of the Bashaw Count Bonneval, from his birth to his death : shewing the motives which induced him to quit the service and dominions of France, his entrance into and sudden rise in the imperial armies, his exploits in Italy, Hungary, &c., his quarrel with the Marquis de Prie and its consequences, the true cause of his disgrace at the court of Vienna, and the reasons which occasioned him to seek an azylum amongst the Turks, with his various fortunes while in the service of the Porte : interspersed throughout with an entertaining diversity of secret intrigues, amorous adventures, military and political achievements : being in effect the secret history of Europe for the best part of the current century / written by himself and collected from his papers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmet Paşa, Kumbaracıbaşı, 1675-1747.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mémoires du comte de Bonneval. English.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ahmet Paşa, Kumbarcibaşi, 1675-1747--Fiction.

Ahmet Paşa.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Keim, George de Benneville (bookplate) (copy 1)

Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (copy 2)

Physical Description:

x, 200, 326 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 20 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for E. Withers ... G. Woodfall ... and sold by R. Griffiths ..., 1750.

Notes:

Published pseudonymously. "The memoirs published under his name are spurious." -- Encyc. brit., 11th ed.

Translation of: Mémoires du comte de Bonneval.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) N10148

Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 45

Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), p.158

OCLC:

16109121