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    By Aaron Hill
    London   G. Parker
    12.5" by 8" (4), 14, (312)pp
    An early edition of this detailed account of Hill's travels as a young man in Constantinople, and areas around the Ottoman Empire, including Ethiopia and Palestine. Unfortunately, bound without the plates, however still a useful and interesting text.
    By Aaron Hill

    1733 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.

    London   G. Parker
    12.5" by 8" (4), 14, (312)pp
    An early edition of this detailed account of Hill's travels as a young man in Constantinople, and areas around the Ottoman Empire, including Ethiopia and Palestine. Unfortunately, bound without the plates, however still a useful and interesting text.
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    Early Edition, Leather Binding

    There are no illustrations present in this copy. Pagination from the ESTC #N18516. With a bookplate of Richard A. Barclay to the front pastedown, his ink signature to the front free-endpaper, and a small ink stamp to the title page. Aaron Hill, 1685-1750, was an English writer and entrepreneur. "Aaron's maternal grandmother, took charge of his education, sending him first to the free grammar school at Barnstaple (where he befriended the writer John Gay), then to Westminster School (c.1696–1699), and finally supporting him in an ambitious trip to the East (c.1700–1704) to visit his distant relative Lord Paget, English ambassador to Constantinople. Hill's early adventures abroad furnished material for the lavishly illustrated subscription volume A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire (1709)" -DNB.

    Condition

    In a cloth binding. Externally, some bumping, with marks and water stains. There is a closed tear to the spine, with lifting. The joints are just starting. The hinges are strained. Internally, generally firmly bound, with marks and spots, and some browning, prominent to margins and the first and last few pages. There are browned tidemarks to the last few pages, and occasional tidemarks, largely marginal. There is a copperplate ink signature to the last page, and ink inscriptions to the verso of the title page. There is a closed tear to the twentieth leaf. There are occasional marginal small closed tears.

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