The antiquities of Constantinople
Subtitle: with a description of its situation, the conveniencies of its port, its publick buildings, the statuary, sculpture, architecture, and other curiosities of that city : with cuts explaining the chief of them : in four books
By: written originally in Latin by Petrus Gyllius ... ; now translated into English, and elarged ... by John Ball ...
Contributors: Ball, John, 17th cent.; Panciroli, Guido, 1523-1599; Tinney, John, d. 1761
Publisher: Printed for the benefit of the translator
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Description of the city of Constantinople, as it stood in the reigns of Arcadius and Honorius.
Work titles: De topographia Constantinopoleos
Notes: Final page blank.

Signatures: A-U a-d.

Engraved title-page, not included in pagination.

"A description of the city of Constantinople, as it stood in the reigns of Arcadius and Honorius : published from the Notitia utriusque imperii : with Pancirolus's notes"--63 p. at end.

Plates engraved by John Tinney.

Sloan candidate lp Tier 3

Bound in old polished calf; gilt boards; respined; sprinkled edges; library shelf label and engraved armorial bookplate on front pastedown; bookseller's label on rear pastedown.