MRP: Aleppo

Aleppo

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Letters

See 13th May 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale & Mun Browne to Sir GO, Aleppo
See 20th August 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale to Sir GO, Aleppo
See 14th September 1665, Letter from Whinchelsea, Pira of Constant:ple
- "I have a pticular likeing to y:t Drinke w:ch they call Tea, & therefore I must desire you to doe mee y:e ffavo:e to send mee by y:e Caravan w:ch come for Allepo such a proportion thereof as may serve for 2:psons á whole yeare"

Wills

See "Philip Strode will"
- "I Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in 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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