Gregorovius, Ferdinand; Morris, Edward Joy [translator]. Corsica: Picturesque, Historical and Social: with a sketch of the Life of Napoleon, and an account of the Bonaparte, Paoli, Pozzo di Borgo, and other Principal Families; Translated from the German. Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company, 1855. [10899]
Green publisher's cloth decorated in gilt & black, slight edgewear, binding is clean, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Frontispiece portrait, hinge behind title page treated with document repair tape. 522 clean pages, 6 pp. publisher's catalogue, tight. Good. Hardcover.
1855 copyright date but likely a later 1880's printing from the original plates.
"Delicately drawn idyllic descriptions of the Island, yielding new light to political history, exciting much attention in Germany and England, and altogether making a book of rare character and value." - publisher.