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[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

...A letter documenting the initial stages of Lady Hester Stanhope's well-chronicled sojourn east, while her plans were yet in their infancy, it relates her motives for departure, offering a programmatic rationale for her eventual residence...

[Ottoman document, a letter from Khalil, Governor of Tripoli, to Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks (?)].

Khalil, Governor of Tripoli

...Addressed by Khalil, the Governor of Tripoli (Lebanon), to ‘my brother’ and using a salutation usually reserved for the Sultan (presumably Murad IV), this letter concerns the English consul in Tripoli, seeking the sultan’s permission...

[3 autograph letters to Admiral Lord Keith, Alexandria, 13th & 23rd July and 10th December, 1802]

Pasha, Küçük Hüseyin, Captain

...A series of three letters by Capitan Pasha Hüseyin, High Admiral of the Turkish fleet, probably written by a secretary, but stamped with his own seal, addressing thanks to Admiral Lord Keith, currently commanding the British fleet...

Coppie de la requeste presentee au Turc par l'agent de la Royne d'Angleterre, le 9. de Novembre 1587 / traduicte sur la coppie imprimee en allemand en la ville d'Ingolstad, chez David Sartorius 1588, & inserée dedans le livre de Pierre Hanson de Saxe, portant ce tiltre, admonition ou aduertissement aux fideles Germains, pour se garder des Calvinistes.

P. Hanson
and
Elizabeth I, Queen of England

...One of at least two French versions recording commercial negotiations between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and the Porte. In adjoining poems the Queen is called "lezabel Angloise...louve, pire qu'un million de loups". In July 1578, William...

Narrative of the late expedition to Syria : under the command of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., comprising an account of the capture of Gebail, Tripoli, and Tyre, storming of Sidon, battle of Calat-Meidan, bombardment and capture of St. Jean d'Acre, &c., &c. / by W.P. Hunter, Esq., in two volumes.

W. Patison Hunter

...The work is dedicated to Admiral Robert Stopford, under whose command Hunter saw action in the Anglo-Egyptian War in Syria in 1840. It includes accounts of the taking of Gebail, Tripoli and Tyre, the storming of Sidon, the battle...

Relaçaõ do que aconteceu abordo do Navio Inglez, que felizmente escapou de dar a costa no Cabo Espichel, copia de huma carta, que veio de hum Amigo de Setubal, a outro desta cidade.

M.R.P.S.

...An extraordinary account concerning the appraisal and rescue by Portuguese fishermen of an English ship, the ‘Swift', held captive by a rebellious Genoese sailor off the coast of Gibraltar. On her return voyage to London from southern...

Coppie de la requeste presentee au Turc par l'agent de la Royne d'Angleterre, le 9. de Novembre 1587 / traduicte sur la coppie imprimee en allemand en la ville d'Ingolstad, chez David Sartorius 1588, & inserée dedans le livre de Pierre Hanson de Saxe, portant ce tiltre, admonition ou aduertissement aux fideles Germains, pour se garder des Calvinistes.

P. Hanson
and
Elizabeth I, Queen of England

[Ottoman document, a letter from the governor of Tripoli to the English ambassador in Istanbul, Tripoli].

Khalil, Governor of Tripoli

...Referring to 'our friend the king of Great Britain', Khalil, the Governor of Tripoli (Lebanon), assures the recipient that the newly appointed English consul there will be able to work in peace and that members of his consulate...

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England
and
Edward Norgate

...Illuminated border in upper and side margins, fourteen lines written in an elegant scribal hand in brown ink with initial letters in liquid gold; large initial letter 'C' and baluster-shaped capitals in first line, and border of symmetrical...

The present state of Turkey : or, a description of the political, civil and religious, constitution, government and laws of the Ottoman Empire, the finances, military and naval establishments, the state of learning, and of the liberal and mechanical arts, the manners and domestic economy of the Turks and other subjects of the Grand Signor, &c., &c., together with the geographical, political and civil, state of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, from observations made during a residence of fifteen years in Constantinople and the Turkish Provinces / by Thomas Thornton, Esq.

Thomas Thornton

...Thomas Thornton, the son of a London innkeeper and the brother of a distinguished diplomat, had spent fourteen years at the Levant Company in Constantinople before he published the first edition of this book in London in 1807. In that time...

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[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

Stanhope, Hester, Lady

[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

[Ottoman document, a letter from Khalil, Governor of Tripoli, to Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks (?)].

Khalil, Governor of Tripoli

[Ottoman document, a letter from Khalil, Governor of Tripoli, to Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks (?)].

[3 autograph letters to Admiral Lord Keith, Alexandria, 13th & 23rd July and 10th December, 1802]

Pasha, Küçük Hüseyin, Captain

[3 autograph letters to Admiral Lord Keith, Alexandria, 13th & 23rd July and 10th December, 1802]

Relaçaõ do que aconteceu abordo do Navio Inglez, que felizmente escapou de dar a costa no Cabo Espichel, copia de huma carta, que veio de hum Amigo de Setubal, a outro desta cidade.

M.R.P.S.

Relaçaõ do que aconteceu abordo do Navio Inglez, que felizmente escapou de dar a costa no Cabo Espichel, copia de huma carta, que veio de hum Amigo de Setubal, a outro desta cidade.

[Ottoman document, a letter from the governor of Tripoli to the English ambassador in Istanbul, Tripoli].

Khalil, Governor of Tripoli

[Ottoman document, a letter from the governor of Tripoli to the English ambassador in Istanbul, Tripoli].

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England
and
Edward Norgate

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

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[Letter to His Royal Highness, King George III of England.] The Palace of St Antonio, Island of Malta. 29th July.

[Ottoman document, a letter from Khalil, Governor of Tripoli, to Murad IV, Sultan of the Turks (?)].

[3 autograph letters to Admiral Lord Keith, Alexandria, 13th & 23rd July and 10th December, 1802]

Relaçaõ do que aconteceu abordo do Navio Inglez, que felizmente escapou de dar a costa no Cabo Espichel, copia de huma carta, que veio de hum Amigo de Setubal, a outro desta cidade.

[Ottoman document, a letter from the governor of Tripoli to the English ambassador in Istanbul, Tripoli].

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV]. Charles I, King of England and Edward Norgate

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England, letter signed, addressed to The high and excellent Lord the Visier Basha to the Grand Signor [Ekrem Khalil Pasha, the Grand Vizier to Sultan Murad IV].

Charles I, King of England
and
Edward Norgate