A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 938 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.

281.  Travels in Asia Minor, &c.  By Richard Chandler, 1775-6. 2 vols. 4to.—­These are valuable travels to the antiquarian.  The author, guided by Pausanias, as respects Greece, Strabo for that country and Asia Minor, and Pliny, has described with wonderful accuracy and perspicuity the ruins of the cities of Asia Minor, its temples, theatres, &c.

282.  Savary’s Letters on Greece.  Translated from the French, 8vo.—­Rhodes and Candia are most particularly described in this volume,—­islands of which we previously had meagre accounts.

283.  Fortis’ Travels in Dalmatia. 4to.—­The geology, natural history, and antiquities of this country, with curious and instructive notices on the singular races which inhabit it, form the subject of this volume, which is translated from the Italian.

284.  Travels in Hungary.  By Rob.  Townson, M.D. 1796. 4to.—­This is a valuable work to the natural historian, particularly the mineralogist:  it also contains a very particular account of the Tokay wines.

285.  Travels in the Ionian Islands, Albania, Thessaly, and Greece, 1812-13.  By Dr. Holland. 4to. 1815.—­Classical, antiquarian, and statistical information is here intermixed with valuable remarks on the natural history, manners, political state, &c. of the countries visited, especially Albania.

286.  Dodwell’s Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, 1801. 1805 and 6. 2 vols. 4to. 1819.—­This work displays great research, aided and directed by much preparatory knowledge, and a sound judgment and good taste.

287.  Hobhouse’s Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey, to Constantinople, in 1809-10. 4to. 1813.—­Classical, antiquarian, and statistical, with sketches of manners, national character, &c.

288.  Tableau General de l’Empire Ottoman.—­Of this splendid and celebrated work 2 volumes folio were published in 1787, which comprised the religious code of Turkey.  The 3d volume was published in 1821, divided into two parts:  the first part on the political, military, civil, and judicial code; the second part on the state of the Ottoman empire.  This completes the plan of the author D’Ohsson.  Under all the heads, into which he has divided his work, he has introduced authentic and curious notices of the agriculture, arts, manners, domestic life, &c. of the Turks.  The third volume was published under the superintendence of his son.

289.  Voyage dans la Grece Asiatique.  Par Sestini.  Paris, 1789, 8vo.—­This work, translated from the Italian, comprises an account of the environs of Constantinople, the peninsula of Cyzicum, formerly an island in the Propontis, to which it was united by Alexander the Great; and the districts of Brusa and Nice.  The antiquities of the peninsula, but especially the botany of the countries he visited, are treated of in a masterly manner.

290.  Voyage de Vienne a Belgrade.  Par N.E.  Kleeman, 1768—­1770.  Neufchatel, 1780. 8vo.—­This work, translated from the German, comprehends an account of the Crimea, and of the Tartar tribes who inhabit it, full, minute, and accurate.

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