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DALLAWAY, Jacques. Constantinople ancienne et moderne, et description des côtes et isles de l'Archipel et de la Troade... [etc.], vols Ι-II, Paris, chez Denné jeune, AN VII [=1799].

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James Dallaway (1763-1834) was a member of the Society of Antiquities. He stayed in Istanbul for eighteen months as chaplain and physicial to the…

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THEVENOT, Jean de. The travels of Monsieur Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies... [etc.] London, H. Clarck, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes and T. Newborough, MDCLXXXVII [=1687].

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Jean de Thévenot (1633-1667) was born in France. He travelled to England, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy when he was twenty years old. While in…

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View the items in THEVENOT, Jean de. The travels of Monsieur Thevenot into the Levant. In three parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies... [etc.] London, H. Clarck, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes and T. Newborough, MDCLXXXVII [=1687].

MAC FARLANE, Charles. Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteenth months in the Turkish capital and privinces... [etc.], London, Saunders and Otley, MDCCCXXIX [=1829].

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Charles Macfarlane (1799-1858) was a Scottish writer. He earned his living by writing works of a diverse nature. Macfarlane travelled to Portugal at a…

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View the items in MAC FARLANE, Charles. Constantinople in 1828. A residence of sixteenth months in the Turkish capital and privinces... [etc.], London, Saunders and Otley, MDCCCXXIX [=1829].

CHANDLER, Richard. Travels in Greece: Or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Sociery of Dilettanti, Oxford, Clarendon Press, MDCCLXXVI [=1776].

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Richard Chandler (1738-1810) was an English scholar and antiquarian. An Oxford graduate, as a young man (1959) he published anonymously the "Elegiaca…

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View the items in CHANDLER, Richard. Travels in Greece: Or an account of a tour made at the expense of the Sociery of Dilettanti, Oxford, Clarendon Press, MDCCLXXVI [=1776].

POCOCKE, Richard. A Description of the East, and Some other Countries…, Cyprus and Candia…, the Islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece…, vols I-II, London, W. Bowyer, 1743-45.

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Richard Pococke (1704-1765) came from a prominent family. He studied at Cambridge, followed a career in the church and became a prelate. Pococke…

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View the items in POCOCKE, Richard. A Description of the East, and Some other Countries…, Cyprus and Candia…, the Islands of the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece…, vols I-II, London, W. Bowyer, 1743-45.

MELLING, Antoine Ignace. Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore, Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, MDCCCXIX [=1819].

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Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was a French painter and architect, son of a sculptor. He studied architecture and mathematics and travelled to…

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View the items in MELLING, Antoine Ignace. Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore, Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, MDCCCXIX [=1819].

STACKELBERG, Otto Magnus Baron de. La Grèce. Vues Pittoresques et Topographiques, Paris [London], chez l'Éditeur, H. Rittner et Chaillou-Potrelle [Engelmann, Graff et Coindet], 1830.

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Otto Magnus von Stackelberg (1787-1837), the fifteenth child in his family, was raised and educated in Estonia. He studied in Germany and Moscow, and…

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View the items in STACKELBERG, Otto Magnus Baron de. La Grèce. Vues Pittoresques et Topographiques, Paris [London], chez l'Éditeur, H. Rittner et Chaillou-Potrelle [Engelmann, Graff et Coindet], 1830.

TURNER, William. Journal of a tour in the Levant, London, John Murray, 1820.

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William Turner (1792-1867) was a British diplomat and writer. He was appointed at the Foreign Office at a young age thanks to his father's…

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RYCAUT, Paul. Histoire de l'état present de l'Empire Ottoman, contenant les maximes politiques des Turcs, les principaux points de la religion mahometane..., Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgank, MDCLXX [=1670].

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The British diplomat and author Paul Rycaut (1628-1700) was the tenth son of a Londonese merchant. Rycaut studied at Cambridge and spent several…

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View the items in RYCAUT, Paul. Histoire de l'état present de l'Empire Ottoman, contenant les maximes politiques des Turcs, les principaux points de la religion mahometane..., Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgank, MDCLXX [=1670].

PARDOE, [Julia]. The Beauties of the Bosphorus..., illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, from original Drawings by W.H. Bartlett, London, George Virtue, 1838.

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Julia Pardoe (1806-1862) was a British poet, writer and traveller. She visited the Istanbul with her father, Major Thomas Pardoe, and stayed in that…

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View the items in PARDOE, [Julia]. The Beauties of the Bosphorus..., illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, from original Drawings by W.H. Bartlett, London, George Virtue, 1838.