CAMPAIGNING IN EGYPT Baron DESGENETTES (1762-1837),... Lot 41

[CAMPAIGNING IN EGYPT] Baron DESGENETTES (1762-1837), chief doctor of the Army of the East. Autograph note (1/2 p. in-8) to the second leaf of an L.A.S. to the Baillière editor (1 p. in-8) dated May 26, 1830. Small draft for the third edition of his Histoire médicale de l'armée d'Orient, published by Baillière, Firmin-Didot and Warée (T. III, p. 247). It is an appendix on the subject of abuses committed by Nasiff Pasha on the day of the 12th pluviôse. "The decapitated bodies of six janissaries were carried on stretchers and laid naked under the windows of Kleber's palace with their heads under their feet."