Travels in Various Countries of the East

Herausgeber: Walpole, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1820, this is a compendium of travel and antiquarian writings on Greece, Turkey and Egypt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 297mm x 210mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1699g
• ISBN-13: 9781108043915
• ISBN-10: 1108043917
• Artikelnr.: 34960659

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. On the Tar Springs of Zante (communicated by Mr Hawkins); 2.
Voyage in the Grecian Seas (from the papers of the late Dr Sibthorp); 3.
Discovery of the remains of the Acropolis of Patmos (from the journals of
Mr Whittington); 4. Second voyage in the Grecian Seas (from the papers of
the late Dr Sibthorp); 5. Lemnos (from the journals of Dr Hunt); 6.
Continuation of Sibthorp's journal; 7. Journal relating to parts of the
ancient Elis, Arcadia, Argolis, Laconia, Messenia, and the islands on the
western shores of Greece (from the same); 8. Journey from Constantinople
through Asia Minor, in the year 1802 (from the papers of the late William
George Browne, Esq.); 9. Miscellaneous remarks written at Constantinople,
1802 (from the papers of Mr Browne); 10. Biographical memoir of Mr Browne;
11. Letter from Mr Browne to the late Smithson Tennant, Esq., date Tabriz
(on the frontiers of Persia), July 16 1813; 12. Prices of commodities at
Smyrna in the years 1780, 1790, 1800, and 1812, procured by Mr Browne, at
the desire of Mr Tennant; 13. Journey through some provinces of Asia Minor
in the year 1800 (communicated by Lieut. Col. Leake); 14. Extracts from the
journals of Dr Hume relating to parts of Cyprus; and a description of the
Bay of Marmorice, on the coast of Caramania; 15. Remarks on the antient and
modern geography of parts of Asia Minor (communicated by Col. Leake); 16.
Some particulars respecting the police of Constantinople (communicated by
Mr Hawkins); 17. An account of the discovery of a very antient temple on
Mount Ocha, in Euboea (from the same); 18. Travels through part of the
antient Coele Syria, and Syria Salutaris (from the papers of the late
Lieut. Col. Squire); 19. Letter to the editor on a remarkable Egyptian
bas-relief inscribed with Greek characters; together with a postscript,
containing some observations upon other Egyptian antiquities, by Edward
Daniel Clarke; 20. Journey from Suez to Mount Sinai (communicated by J. N.
Fazakerley, Esq.); 21. On a law of custom which is peculiar to the islands
of the archipelago (communicated by Mr Hawkins); 22. On the Labyrinth of
Crete (communicated by Mr Cockerell); 23. On the sculptures of the
Parthenon (communicated by Mr Wilkins); 24. Notice of some remarkable
monuments of antiquity discovered on the site of the ancient Susa in
Persia; 25. Remarks relating to the natural history of parts of European
Turkey (from the journals of the late Dr Sibthorp); 26. The Arabic
inscription discovered in the Pyramid of Chephrenes, by M. Belzoni, and a
translation of the same by the Rev. S. Lee, Professor of Arabic in the
University of Cambridge; 27. Account of a journey through part of Little
Tartary, and of some Armenian, Greek, and Tartar settlements (from the
journals of Mr Whittington); 28. On the site of Dodona (communicated by Mr
Hawkins); 29. Letter from the Earl of Aberdeen to the editor, relating to
some statements made by M. R. Rochette, in his late work on the
authenticity of the inscriptions of Fourmont; 30. Inscriptions copied in
various parts of Greece, and communicated by Lieut. Col. Leake; 31. Remarks
on the preceding inscriptions by the editor; 32. Letter from Mr Cockerell
to the editor respecting the very singular sepulchral monuments and
inscriptions discovered by him on the southern coast of Asia Minor; 33.
Remarks on the inscriptions discovered in Asia Minor by Colonel Leake, and
Mr Cockerell (by the editor); 34. Inscriptions copied in different parts of
Asia Minor, Greece, and Egypt, illustrated by the editor; Appendix.