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An overview of British provenance of works in the Ottoman collection of the Arcadian Library

The negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, in his embassy to the Ottoman Porte, from the year 1621 to 1628 inclusive : containing a great variety of curious and important matters, relating not only to the affairs of the Turkish Empire, but also to those of other states of Europe in that period, his correspondences with the most illustrious persons, for dignity or character, as with the Queen of Bohemia, Bethlem Gabor Prince of Transylvania, and other potentates of different nations, &c., and many useful and instructive particulars, as well as in relation to trade and commerce, as to subjects of literature, as ancient manuscripts, coins, inscriptions and other antiquities, now first published from the originals.

Lettres sur la Morée : l'Hellespont et Constantinople / par A.L. Castellan, de l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.

His Majesty and the Officers of State receiving the Turkish Ambassador and Suit.

Des coustumes & manieres de vivre des Turcs, faict premiereme[n]t en Latin par Christophle Richer vallet de chambre du roy treschrestien, Fra[n]cois premier de ce nom, & secretaire de son cha[n]cellier, & depuis par iceluy Richer traduict en langue Francoise, & dedie audict roy treschrestien.

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.

Lettres de monsieur l'abbé Dominique Sestini, écrites a ses amis en Toscane, pendant le cours de ses voyages en Italie, en Sicile et en Turquie, sur l'histoire naturelle, l'industrie & le commerce de ces différentes contrées / traduites de l'Italien, & enrichies de notes, par M. Pingeron, membre de l'Académie Royale des Sciences & Arts utiles de Barcelone, ancien secrétaire du Musée de Paris, attaché au bureau des plans du département des bâtimens du roi, à Versailles.

Inauguration du Canal de Suez, voyage des souverains / texte par G. Nicole, aquarelles d'après nature et portraits, par Riou, peintre de son Altesse le Khédive, lithographiés par E. Ciceri, G. Janet, Lafosse, Sirouy, Morel-Fatio, J. Didier, Sorieu, F. Benoit, etc., etc.

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.

The visual depiction of Ottoman culture in the works by European diplomats to the Ottoman Empire