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A full and just account of the present state of the Ottoman empire in all its branches: with the government, and policy, religion, customs, and way of living of the Turks in general. Faithfully related from a serious observation taken in many years travels through those countries. By Aaron Hill, gent.
Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.Date: 1733- Books
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A journal, kept on a journey from Bassora to Bagdad; over the little desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu; and Otranto, in Italy; in the year 1779. By a gentleman, late an officer in the service of the Honourable East-India Company: containing an account of th progress of caravans over the Desert of Arabia; mode and expenses of quarantine; description of the soil, manners and Customs of the various Countries on the extensive Route, &c. &c.
Eversfield, C.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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A tour to the east, in the years 1763 and 1764. With remarks on the city of Constantinople and the Turks. Also select pieces of Oriental wit, poetry and wisdom. By F. Lord Baltimore.
Baltimore, Frederick Calvert, Baron, 1731-1771.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A voyage to the Levant: or, travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, &c. With An Account of the most Considerable Cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land. Enrich'd with above two hundred copper-plates, wherein are represented the most Noted Cities, Countries, Towns, and other remarkable Things, all Drawn to the Life. By M. Corneille le Bruyn. Done into English, by W. J.
Bruyn, Cornelis de, 1652-1727.Date: 1702- Books
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Travels in several parts of Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land, by James Haynes, late clerk to an eminent merchant in Grant Cairo.
Haynes, James.Date: 1744