[Rarebooks] FS: Hill, Aaron. A FULL AND JUST ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, 1709.

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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.  London: Printed for the 
author, and are to be Sold by John Mayo, 1709.   Folio.  Engraved 
frontis, [8], xxviii, blank, [6] pp list of subscribers, [2]pp table 
of contents, 339pp.  7 engraved plates, each with an unnumbered  leaf 
with an Explanation of the Plate.   Rebound with original panelled 
calf from top and bottom boards laid down, new endpapers.  Tape along 
hinge between front endpapers.  Some buckling to the pages 
throughout.  Plate pages and their explanation page browning and 
small burn hole on first plate. Last gathering shows age toning, else 
a remarkably clean and crisp copy.  CDN $2,750.00

Hill, Aaron, 1685-1750.  Playwright.  Drawn from Hill's adolescence 
in Constantinople and travels in Egypt and Palestine and written soon 
after his return to England at the age of 23.

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