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• Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

• Vosemʹ grecheskikhʺ opisanīĭ sv. mi͡estʺ XIV, XV, i XVI vv. (880-05 S.-Peterburgʺ : Izdanīe Imperatorskago pravoslavnago palestinskago obshchestva, 1903., 1903), by Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus and P. V. Bezobrazov (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Travels From England to India, in the Year 1789, by the Way of the Tyrol, Venice, Scandaroon, Aleppo, and Over the Great Desart to Bussora; With Instructions for Travellers, and an Account of the Expence of Travelling, &c. &c. (2 volumes; London: Printed by S. Low for J. Carpenter and Murray and Highley, 1799), by John Taylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East (2 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for R. Morison and Son, et al., 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr, ed. by Robert Heron
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Voyage dans l'Inde, au Travers du Grand Désert, par Alep, Antioche et Bassora (2 volumes in French; Paris: Genest, 1803), by John Taylor, contrib. by L. de Grandpré (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• Beschreibung der Reisen des Reinhold Lubenau (all known US-public domain portions of this edition, in German; Konigsberg: F. Beyer, 1914-1920), by Reinhold Lubenau, ed. by W. Sahm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Pilgerfahrt des Ritters Arnold von Harff von Cöln durch Italien, Syrien, Aegypten, Arabien, Aethiopien, Nubien, Palästina, die Türkei, Frankreich und Spanien : wie er sie in den Jahren 1496 bis 1499 vollendet ; beschrieben und durch Zeichnungen erläutert hat (J.M. Heberle (H. Lempertz), 1860), by Arnold Harff and Eberhard von Groote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evliya Çelebi seyahatnamesi (İkdam Matbaası, 1896), by Evliya Çelebi and Ahmet Cevdet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem, at Easter, A.D. 1697 : to which is added an account of the author's journey to the banks of the Euphrates at Beer, and to the country of Mesopotamia (S.G. Simkins, 1836), by Henry Maundrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation d'un voyage du Levant, fait par ordre du roy : contenant l'histoire ancienne & moderne de plusieurs isles de l'archipel, de Constantinople, des côtes de la Mer Noire, de l'Armenie, de la Georgie, des frontieres de Perse & de l'Asie Mineure ... : enrichie de description & de figures d'un grand nombre de plantes rares, de divers animaux, et de plusieurs observations touchant l'histoire naturelle (Chez Anisson et Posuel, 1717), by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Louis Phélypeaux Pontchartrain, and M. de Fontenelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage into the Levant : a Breife [!] relation of a iourney lately performed by Master H. B. Gentleman, from England by the way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosnah, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes and Egypt, unto Gran Cairo : with particular observations concerning the moderne condition of the Turkes, and other people under that empire. (Printed by I. L[egat] for Andrew Crooke ..., 1636), by Henry Blount, Andrew Crooke, John Legat, and Wood (London) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mir'at ül-memâlik (İkdam Gazetesi sahib-i imtiyaz ve baş muharriri Ahmet Cevdet, 1896), by Seydî Ali Reis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels, or Observations relating to several parts of Barbary and the Levant. (Printed at the Theatre, 1738), by Thomas Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise nach Palästina in den jahren von 1749 bis 1752 (Rostock : verlegts Johann Christian Koppe, 1762, 1762), by Fredrik Hasselquist, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, Johann Christian Koppe, Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch, and Carl von Linné (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas, fait par ordre du roy dans la Grece, l'Asie Mineure, la Macedoine et l'Afrique. (Chez N. Simart, 1712), by Paul Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journey from Bengal to England : through the northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea (Printed for R. Faulder, 1798), by George Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres de C.-F. Volney, comte et pair de France ... (A. Wahlen et cie, 1823), by C.-F. Volney and Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of La Brocq́uière (At the Hafod Press, by James Henderson, 1807), by Bertrandon de La Brocquière, cit. Legrand, and Thomas Johnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques, politiques et géographiques des voyages du comte de Ferrières-Sauvebœuf : faits en Turquie, en Perse et en Arabie, depuis 1782, jusqu'en 1789 : avec ses observations sur la religion, les mœurs, le caractere & le commerce de ces trois nations : suivies de détails très-exacts sur la guerre des Turcs avec les deux cours impériales, d'Autriche et de Russie, les dispositions des trois armées, & les résultats de leurs campagnes. (Chez J.R. Roux & compagnie ..., 1790), by Louis-François Ferrières-Sauvebœuf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation des voyages de Sidi-Aly, fils d'Housain, nommé ordinairement Katibi Roumi, amiral de Soliman II, écrite en Turk, traduite de l'allemand, sur la version de M. de Diez (Dondey-Dupré père et fils, 1827), by Seydî Ali Reis, Moris,, and Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage au Levant : c'est-à-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes, Chypre, &c., de même que dans les plus consid`erables villes d'Egypte, Syrie et Terresainte. (Charles Ferrand, 1725), by Cornelis de Bruyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safarnāmah-i Ḥakīm Nāṣir-i K︠h︡usraw. (C︠h︡āpk︠h︡ānah-i S︠h︡irkat-i Kāviyānī, 1922), by 1004-approximately 1088 Nāṣir-i Khusraw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mir'âtü'l-memâlik (İkdam Matbaası, 1895), by Seydî Ali Reis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundrichtige Beschreibung Ungarns und der Türckey (Gedruckt und verlegt, durch Jacob Koppmayer, 1684), by Johann Christoph Wagner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675 & 1676 (Chez Rutgert Alberts, 1724), by Jacob Spon and George Wheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le navigationi et viaggi nella Turchia, di Nicolo de Nicolai del Delfinato ... : con diuerse singolarità in quelle parti dall' autore viste & osseruate. (Apresso Guiglielmo Siluio stampatore regio., 1576), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Willem Silvius, Jean Croissant, Geeraard Jansen van Kampen, Cornelis Muller, Arnaud Nicolai, Assuerus van Londerseel, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die durch die drey Theile der Welt, Europa, Asia und Africa, besonders in denselben nach Loreto, Rom, Monte-Cassino, nicht minder Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Berg Sinai, [et]c. [et]c. und andere heilige Oerter des gelobten Landes angestellte andächtige Pilgerfahrt : worinnen nicht allein solcher Gnaden-Orte Ursprung, grosse Wunderthaten, heilige Reliquien und Ablass, sondern auch derer Völcker Sitten, der Länder wunderliche Gewächs, der Thiere Eigenschafften, und alle andere Merckwürdigkeiten zu finden ... (Verlegts Georg Christoph Weber ..., 1727), by Vincentius Briemle and Johann Joseph Pock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mukhtaṣar riḥlat al-Imām al-ʻālim al-ʻallāmah Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Lawātī al-Ṭanjī al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn Baṭūṭah al-Maghribī. ([s.n.], 1861), by Ibn Batuta and ʻAlī Mukhallātī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece, et du Levant : fait aux années 1675. & 1676. (Chez Antoine Cellier le fils, 1678), by Jacob Spon, Antoine Cellier, and George Wheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage into the Levant, perform'd by command of the late French king : containing the antient and modern state of the islands of the archipelago : as also of Constantinople, the coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor : with plans of the principal towns and places of note : an account of the genius, manners, trade, and religion of the respective people inhabiting those parts : and an explanation of variety of medals and antique monuments ... (Printed for D. Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby [and 8 others], 1718), by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, John Senex, Honoré Maria Lauthier, and Mr. Ozell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage de M. Niebuhr en Arabie et en d'autres pays de l'Orient : avec l'extrait de sa description de l'Arabie & des observations de Mr. Forskal. (Chez les Libraires associés, 1780), by Carsten Niebuhr and Peter Forsskål (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arabie, Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie (by Jacob van Meurs, 1680), by Olfert Dapper, Jacob van Meurs, Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, Charles Vasteau, and Johannes Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte, pendant les années 1783, 84 et 85 ... (Chez Courcier, imprimeur-libraire, 1807), by C.-F. Volney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages et observations dv Sievr de La Bovllaye-Le-Govz, gentil-homme angevin (Chez Geruais Clousier au Palais, sur les degrez de la Saincte Chapelle, 1653), by François Le Gouz de La Boullaye and Gervais Clousier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Khozhenïe za tri mori︠a︡ Aḟanasii︠a︡ Nikitina : v 1466-1472 gg. ; chtenïi︠a︡ I.I. Sreznevskago. (V tip. Imp. Akad. Nauk, 1857), by Afanasiĭ Nikitich Nikitin and I. I. Sreznevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations de plvsievrs singvlaritez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges (En la boutique de Gilles Corrozet, 1553), by Pierre Belon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigationi et viaggi, fatti nella Tvrchia, di Nicolo de'Nicolai del Delfinato, signor d'Arfevilla (Presso Francesco Ziletti, 1580), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Antoine van Leest, and François Flory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage à Bassora et retour à Constantinople (Chez Dupuis ..., 1798), by Domenico Sestini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Ouvrage enrichi de plus de 320 tailles douces ... On y a ajoûté la route qu'a suivie mr. Isbrants, ambassadeur de Moscovie, en traversant la Russie & la Tartarie, pour se rendre à la Chine. Et quelques remarques contre mrs. Chardin & Kempfer. Avec une lettre écrite à l'auteur, sur ce sujet ... (Freres Wetstein, 1718), by Cornelis de Bruyn, Gerard Wetstein, Rudolf Wetstein, Godfrey Kneller, G. Valck, Bernard Picart, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arabia (Apud I. Ianssonium, 1633), by Wolfgang Drechsler, Adrien Romain, Johann Ludwig Gottfried, Christophe Richer, Johannes van Cootwijk, Joannes Hesronita, Gabriel Sionita, and Jan Jansson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cehil svtvn (Viennae Austriae : Typis Leopoldi Voigt, universitatis typogr., [1678], 1678), by Petrus Bedik, Leopold Voigt, Domenico Rossetti, Tobias Sadeler, and Rudolf Storn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for forraine travell ([A. Murray], 1869), by James Howell and Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies : the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, the coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the Third. (London : Printed for Moses Pitt in Duke-Street Westminster, 1686., 1686), by John Chardin, David Loggan, and Moses Pitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viaggi di Pietro della Valle, il pellegrino : con minuto ragguaglio di tutte le cose notabili osseruate in essi : discritti da lui medesimo in 54 lettere familiari ... : mandate in Napoli all'erudito ... Mario Schipano : diuisi in tre parti, cioè la Turchia, la Persia, e l'India. (Appresso Vitale Mascardi, 1650), by Pietro Della Valle and Mario Schipano (page images at HathiTrust)
• Safarʹnāmah-ʼi Ḥakīm Nāṣir Khusraw. Bi-inz̤imām-i Rawshanāʼīʹnāmah va Saʻādatnāmah. (Kāviyānī, 1922), by 1004-approximately 1088 Nāṣir-i Khusraw and 1004-approximately 1088 Nāṣir-i Khusraw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reise nach Palaestina und Kleinasien (T.G. Meissner, 1859), by von Oldenburg Wilbrand and J. C. M. Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of a journey begun an: Dom: 1610 (London : Printed for Rob. Clavel, Tho. Passinger, Will. Cadman, Will. Whitwood, Tho. Sawbridge, and Will. Birch, 1670., 1670), by George Sandys, William Birch, Thomas Sawbridge, William Whitwood, William Cademan, and Thomas Passinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Niebuhr's travels through Arabia and other countries in the East (R. Morison and Son, 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr, Thomas Vernor, George Mudie, active 1770-1814 Mc Intyre, Robert Heron, R. Morison & Son, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Travels in Palestine: Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, de la Brocquière, and Maundrell, ed. by Thomas Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• The trauels of certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea And into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galile, Samaria, Iudea, Palestina, Ierusalem, Iericho, and to the Red Sea: and to sundry other places. Begunne in the yeare of iubile 1600. and by some of them finished in this yeere 1608. The others not yet returned. Very profitable to the help of trauellers, and no lesse delightfull to all persons who take pleasure to heare of the manners, gouernement, religion, and customes of forraine and heathen countries. (London : Printed by Th. Haueland. for W. Aspley, and are to bee sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Parrot, 1609), by William Biddulph and Theophilus Lavender (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sir Antony Sherley his relation of his trauels into Persia The dangers, and distresses, which befell him in his passage, both by sea and land, and his strange and vnexpected deliuerances. His magnificent entertainement in Persia, his honourable imployment there-hence, as embassadour to the princes of Christendome, the cause of his disapointment therein, with his aduice to his brother, Sir Robert Sherley, also, a true relation of the great magnificence, valour, prudence, iustice, temperance, and other manifold vertues of Abas, now King of Persia, with his great conquests, whereby he hath inlarged his dominions. Penned by Sr. Antony Sherley, and recommended to his brother, Sr. Robert Sherley, being now in prosecution of the like honourable imployment. (London : Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Nathaniell Butter, and Ioseph Bagfet, 1613), by Anthony Sherley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Rare and most wonderfull things which Edward Webbe hath seene and passed. (London : Printed [by J. Wolfe] for William Wright, 1590), by Edward Webbe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true and almost incredible report of an Englishman, that (being cast away in the good ship called the Assention in Cambaya the farthest part of the East Indies) trauelled by land through many vnknowne kingdomes, and great cities VVith a particular description of all those kingdomes, cities, and people. As also a relation of their commodities and manner of traffique, and at what seasons of the yeere they are most in vse. Faithfully related. With a discouery of a great emperour called the Great Mogoll, a prince not till now knowne to our English nation. By Captaine Robert Couerte. (London : Printed by William Hall, for Thomas Archer and Richard Redmer, 1612), by Robert Coverte (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The preachers trauels Wherein is set downe a true iournall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia. Containing a full suruew of the knigdom [sic] of Persia: and in what termes the Persian stands with the Great Turke at this day: also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there: and the estate that his brother, M. Robert Sherley liued in after his departure for Christendome. With the description of a port in the Persian gulf, commodious for our East Indian merchants; and a briefe rehearsall of some grosse absudities [sic] in the Turkish Alcoran. Penned by I.C. sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford. (London : Printed [by William Stansby] for Thomas Thorppe, and are to bee sold by Walter Burre, 1611), by John Cartwright (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, The coronation of this present King of Persia, Solyman the Third. (London : Printed for Moses Pitt ..., 1686), by John Chardin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Quatre premiers livres de navigations et peregrinations orientales. English (Imprinted at London : [At the cost of John Stell] by Thomas Dawson, 1585), by Nicolas de Nicolay, Thomas Washington, and John Stell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A voyage into tartary containing a curious description of that country, with part of Greece and Turky, the manners, opinions, and religion of the inhabitants therein, with some other incidents / by M. Heliogenes de L'Epy, doctor in philosophy. (London : Printed by T. Hodgkin, and are to by sold by Randal Taylor ..., 1689), by Heliogenes de L'Epy (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true report of Sir Anthony Shierlies iourney ouerland to Venice fro[m] thence by sea to Antioch, Aleppo, and Babilon, and soe to Casbine in Persia: his entertainment there by the great Sophie: his oration: his letters of credence to the Christian princes: and the priuiledg obtained of the great Sophie, for the quiet passage and trafique of all Christian marchants, throughout his whole dominions. (London : Printed by R, B[lower] for I. I[aggard], 1600), by Anthony Sherley (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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