MRP: Aleppo
Aleppo
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'Aleppo Een Vermaerde Stadt in Syrien' in Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant...(Amsterdam, 1677)
Alexander Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, vol. 1, 2nd edn. (London, 1794), betw. pp. 12 & 13
Map, Ralph Davis, Aleppo and Devonshire Square: English Traders in the Levant in the 18th Century (London: Routledge, 1967, p. X
Nicholas de Nicolay, The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie. Translated from the French by T. Washington the younger. Edited by John (i.e. Hans) Stell. London: Thomas Dawson, 1585.
- "The 60 woodcuts in the present edition were copied from the Antwerp versions, possibly by a Dutchman called Charles Tressell. The monogram CT appears in at least two cuts.
- The explicit woodcut of "a Religius Turke" facing p. 102, is often found mutilated, but remains intact in this copy.
- Other woodcuts include the earliest depictions of inhabitants of Algiers, Tripoli, Turkey, Greece, Persia and Armenia. Jewish occupational costumes are represented by a physician, a Jewess and a merchant.”
- See: www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d52815/d5281539l.jpg, viewed 25/10/10
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