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 ...

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Hill, Aaron

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Date

1733

Bibliographic Citation

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 through those Countries. by Aaron Hill ... London: Printed by G. Parker, 1733

Description

[iv]+14+[15-325]p., 31cm.

Identifier

G915.61 - H64f - 0Φ3608

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G. Parker

Traveller

Hill, Aaron

General Remarks

3rd edition. The first edition was published in London in 1709 (see EJF collection entry number 604). A second edition was published in 1710. The 3rd edition, which seems to be rather uncommon, does not include any illustrations. The text remains the same as to that of the first and second editions, but is now printed two columns to a page and the side-notes now appear as footnotes to the appropriate chapters. This edition lacks all the preliminaries found in the first edition, namely the Printer's Licence, the Dedication to the Queen and the list of subscribers. The author's preface has also been drastically shortened. The pages of the book have been numbered by the printer only up to and including p. 14. Arabic numerals have been subsequently added in manuscript. Added to this copy are 5 pages in manuscript, in Hebrew script, by the previous owner, N. Schur. This edition not in BL or GL, Blackmer or Atabey.

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Provenance: book-label Nathan Schur (1923-?). Library stamp in ink: "Mercantile Library".

Remarks content

Η ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΙΔΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΗΓΟΥΜΕΝΟΥ 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.

Itinerary

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 through those Countries. by Aaron Hill ...,” travelogues, accessed January 13, 2025, https://english.travelogues.gr/items/show/40811.