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 Thro' Those Countries. By Aaron Hill, Gent. ...

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Hill, Aaron

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1709

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Hill, Aaron, (1685-1750), 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 Thro' Those Countries. By Aaron Hill, Gent. ... London: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold, by John Mayo, 1709

Description

[viii]+xxvii+[ix]+339p., 36cm.

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G915.61 - H64p A - 00Φ604 c. 1

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John Mayo

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Hill, Aaron

General Remarks

First edition. A second edition was published in 1710. According to Leonora Navari (Blackmer 817) the second edition consisted of the unsold sheets of the first edition, a new title, an editor's preface and commendatory verse. The EJF collection also includes the third edition of this work, published in London in 1733 (see EJF entry number 3608).

Remarks book

This copy lacks all the original plates but includes the explanatory leaves that accompany them. The plates, including their exact measurements, have been inserted in photocopy. Provenance:Bookplate of "William Wrightson, of Cusworth in Yorkshire, Esq." on front paste-down endpaper. This is probably William Wrightson, M.P., 1752-1827. Also on front paste-down endpaper are various manuscript notes, in a contemporary English hand. Contemporary manuscript signatures on front free end-paper: "George Featherstone" and "Robert Fenwick". [viii]=[i] t-p [iii] Printer's Licence, with coat of arms [v-viii] Dedication to Queen Anne; p. xv of the Preface misprinted xiv. This is a subscription copy, and the list of subscribers can be found on pp. [i-vi]. Errata on p. [viii]. Signatures; head- and tail-pieces; catchwords; printed side-notes. References: Atabey 580; Weber II: 757; Blackmer 817 (on 2nd edition)

Remarks content

Aaron Hill travelled extensively in the Levant and the Near East between c. 1700-1703. He was in Constantinople in 1702, where he met his distant relative and English Ambassador, William Paget (Sixth Baron Paget, 1637-1713). Hill's account includes a visit to the Seraglio (which he saw while the Sultan and the harem were at Adrianople), as well as a series of chapters on the present state of the Greeks under Turkish rule, Greek religion and customs, as well as the religion of Armenians and Copts. There are also brief descriptions of some of the islands of the Archipelago (Lemnos, Chios, Lesbos, Samos, Ikaria, Patmos, Rhodes, Kos, Delos and Paxo). Hill visited Samos and Patmos in person; the rest of his descriptions are not based on his eye-witness observations. He also visited Troy and tried to find the ancient remains of the Homeric city.

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Τουρκία--1702, Εγγύς Ανατολή--1702, Κωνσταντινούπολη--1702, Τροία--1702, Δαρδανέλλια--1702, Σάμος--1702, Πάτμος--1702, Παλαιστίνη--1703, Αίγυπτος--1703

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Hill, Aaron, “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 Thro' Those Countries. By Aaron Hill, Gent. ... ,” travelogues, accessed January 13, 2025, https://english.travelogues.gr/items/show/40810.