Sandys Travels 12+

📒 Эта книга — репринт оригинального издания (издательство "London : Printed for Rob. Clavel, Tho. Passinger, Will Cadman, Tho. Sawbridge, and Will Birch", 1670 год), созданный на основе электронной копии высокого разрешения, которую очистили и обработали вручную, сохранив структуру и орфографию оригинального издания. Редкие, забытые и малоизвестные книги, изданные с петровских времен до наших дней, вновь доступны в виде печатных книг.Sandys travels: containing an history of the original and present state of the Turkish Empire, their laws, government, policy, military force, courts of justice, and commerce, the Mahometan religion and ceremonies, a description of Constantinople, the Grand Signior's seraglio, and his manner of living: also, of Greece, with the religion and customs of the Grecians; Of Ægypt, the antiquity, hieroglyphicks, rites, customs, discipline, and religion of the Ægyptians; A voyage on the River Nylvs; Of Armenia, Grand Cairo, Rhodes, the Pyramides, Colossus, the former flourishing and present state of Alexandria; A description of the Holy-Land, of the Jews, and several sects of Christians living there; Of Jerusalem, sepulchre of Christ, Temple of Solomon, and what else either of antiquity, or worth observation; Lastly, Italy described, and the islands adjoyning, as Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Sicilia, the Æolian Islands, of Rome, Venice, Naples, Syracusa, Mesena, Ætna, Scylla and Charybdis, and other places of note: illustrated with fifty graven maps a...