The present state of the Morea
called anciently Peloponnesus: together with a description of the city of Athens, islands of Zant, Strafades, and Serigo. With the maps of Morea and Greece, and several cities. Also a true prospect of the grand serraglio, or imperial palace of Constantinople, as it appears from Galata: curiously engraved on copper plates. By Bernard Randolph. [With] The present state of the islands in the archipelago, (or arches) sea of Constantinople, and gulph of Smyrna; with the islands of Candia, and Rhodes. Faithfully describ'd by Ber. Randolph. To which is annexed an index, shewing the longitude and latitude of all the places in the new map of Greece lately published by the same author.
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London, Will. Notts, at the Queens-Arms in Pell Mall, Tho. Basset in Fleetstreet; and Thomas Bennet, at the Half-moon in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1689 & Oxford, printed at the Theater in Oxford, 1687.
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'Randolph (bap. 1643 - d. after 1689?)... was living in Smyrna [by 1664] and he traded extensively through the Aegean region of the Ottoman empire until after 1680. Between 1683 and 1684 he travelled three times to Massachusetts to assist his elder brother Edward as deputy collector of customs. Back in England he published in 1686 The Present State of the Morea, a brief account of the port cities of the Peloponnese. He followed this with a longer work, in which he interwove his own travels with descriptions of trading conditions and the conflict between Ottoman and Venetian rule in the lands around the Aegean (The Present State of the Islands in the Archipelago)' (ODNB).
'...State of the Morea': third edition; 8vo, [2], 26 pp., large folding map of the Morea, 2 double-page plates. '...State of the islands': first edition. [2], 108, [10] pp., large folding map of Greece with part of Anatolia, 2 folding plates, 1 double-page plate of Tenedos, very large folding plate of the Gran Seraglio, contemporary panelled calf, handsomely rebacked, neat repairs to folding plates, a very good copy.
'...State of the Morea': third edition; 8vo, [2], 26 pp., large folding map of the Morea, 2 double-page plates. '...State of the islands': first edition. [2], 108, [10] pp., large folding map of Greece with part of Anatolia, 2 folding plates, 1 double-page plate of Tenedos, very large folding plate of the Gran Seraglio, contemporary panelled calf, handsomely rebacked, neat repairs to folding plates, a very good copy.
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