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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- Books
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Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. By Thomas Shaw, D. D. Fellow of Queen's-College in Oxford, and F. R. S.
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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Travels through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine: with a general history of the Levant. By the Abbé Mariti. Translated from the Italian. ...
Mariti, Giovanni, 1736-1806.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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An account of divers choice remarks, as well geographical, as historical, political, mathematical, physical, and moral; taken in a journey through the Low-Countries, France, Italy, and part of Spain; with the isles of Sicily and Malta. As also, a voyage to the Levant: a description of Candia, Egypt, the Red Sea, the desarts of Arabia, Mount-Horeb, and Mount-Sinai; the coasts of Palestine, Syria, and Asia-Minor; the Hellespont, Propontis, and Constantinople; the isles of the Carpathian, Egean, and Ionian Seas. Wherein, their present state, interest, customs, manners, and religion; their learning, and learned men; with the most celebrated pieces of sculpture, painting, &c. are more accurately set forth, than hath hitherto been done. With an account of divers sorts of shell-like bodies found at great distances from the seas; with remarks thereon, in way to discover their original: and what else occurr'd most remarkable in thirteen years travels. Illustrated with divers figures. By E. Veryard, M.D.
Veryard, Ellis.Date: MDCCI. [1701]- Books
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Travels and adventures of Edward Brown, Esq; formerly a merchant in London. Containing his observations on France and Italy; his voyage to the Levant; his Account of the Isle of Malta; his Remarks in his Journies thro' the lower and upper Egypt; together with a brief Description of the Abyssinian Empire. Interspersed throughout With several curious Historical Passages relating to our own as well as Foreign Nations; as also with Critical Disquisitions as to the present State of the Sciences in Egypt, particularly Physic and Chemistry.
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]- Books
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Travels through Egypt and Syria, in the years 1783, 1784 & 1785. Containing the present natural and political state of those countries; their productions, arts, manufactures & commerce; with observations on the manners, customs and government of the Turks & Arabs. By M. C-F. Volney. Translated from the French. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820.Date: --1798--- Books
Heirs to forgotten kingdoms : journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East / Gerard Russell.
Russell, GerardDate: 2014- Books
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Travels through part of Europe, Asia Minor, the islands of the Archipelago; Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c. ... By ... J. Ægidius van Egmont, ... and John Heyman, ... Translated from the Low Dutch. In two volumes. ...
Egmond van der Nijenburg, Johannes Aegidius van, 1697-1747.Date: 1759- Books
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Travels through Arabia, and other countries in the East, performed by M. Niebuhr, ... Translated into English by Robert Heron. With notes by the translator; and illustrated with engravings and maps. In two volumes. ...
Niebuhr, Carsten, 1733-1815.Date: 1792- Books
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Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. By Thomas Shaw, D. D. Fellow of Queen's-College in Oxford, and F. R. S.
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- 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 view of the levant: Particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. In which their antiquities, government, politics, maxims, manners, and customs, (with many other circumstances and contingencies) are attempted to be described and treated on. In four parts. By Charles Perry, M.D.
Perry, Charles, 1698-1780.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
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Travels through different cities of Germany, Italy, Greece, and several parts of Asia, as far as the banks of the Euphrates: In a series of letters. Containing an account of what is most remarkable in their present state, as well as in their monuments of antiquity. By Alexander Drummond, Esq; His Majesty's Consul at Aleppo.
Drummond, Alexander, -1769.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and other parts of the world: Giving a particular and faithful Account of what is most remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities, and Natural History of those Countries: with a Curious Description of Jerusalem, as it now appears, And other Places mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Thompson, Esq; Interspersed with the Remarks of several other modern Travellers; illustrated with Notes, Historical, Geographical, and Miscellaneous, by the Editor; and adorned with Maps and Prints. ...
Thompson, Charles, active 1750.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- 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. de la Motraye's travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa; with proper cutts and maps. Containing a great variety of geographical, topographical, and political observations on those Parts of the World; especially on Italy, Turky, Greece, Crim and Noghaian Tartaries, Circassia, Sweden, and Lapland. A curious Collection of Things particularly Rare, both in Nature and Antiquity; such as Remains of antient Cities and Colonies, Inscriptions, Idols, Medals, Minerals, &c. With An Historical Account of the most considerable Events which happen'd during the Space of above 25 Years; such as a great Revolution in the Turkish Empire, by which the Emperor was depos'd; the Engaging of the Russian and Turkish Armies on the Banks of the Pruth; the late King of Sweden's Reception and Entertainment at Bender; his Transactions with the Porte, during his Stay of above four Years in Turkey; his Return into his Dominions, Campaigns in Norway, Death, &c. His Sister, the Princess Ulrica's Accession to the Throne, her generous Resignation of it to her Consort the present King; and, in fine, all the chief Transactions of the Senate and States of Sweden, &c. ...
La Mottraye, Aubry de, 1674?-1743.Date: in the Year MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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A compendium of A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, by Mr. Henry Maundrel, ... The travels of Dr. Thomas Shaw, F.R.S. and A journey to Palmyra.
Maundrell, Henry, 1665-1701.Date: [1757?]- Books
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Travels, or observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. Illustrated with cuts. The second edition, with great improvements. By Thomas Shaw, D. D. F. R. S. Regius Professor of Greek, and Principal of St. Edmund Hall, in the University of Oxford.
Shaw, Thomas, 1694-1751.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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A compendium of A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, by Mr. Henry Maundrel, Chaplain to the English Factory at Aleppo. The travels of Dr. Thomas Shaw, F. R. S. and a journey to Palmyra.
Maundrell, Henry, 1665-1701.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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Travels through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and other parts of the world: Giving a particular and faithful Account of what is most remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities and Natural History of those Countries: with a Curious Description of Jerusalem, as it now appears, and other Places Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. By Charles Thompson, Esq. Interspersed with the remarks of several other modern travellers; illustrated with notes, historical, geographical, and miscellaneous.
Thompson, Charles, active 1750.Date: 1798- Books
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Travels through Cyprus, Syria, and Palestine: with a general history of the Levant. By the Abbé Mariti. Translated from the Italian. ...
Mariti, Giovanni, 1736-1806.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]