The Antiquities of Constantinople / With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Antiquities of Constantinople, by Pierre Gilles, Translated by John Ball
From Angeloni. J. Tinney Sculp.
Now Translated into English , and Enlarged with an Ancient Description of the Wards of that CITY, as they stood in the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius .
With Pancirolus’s Notes thereupon.
To which is added A large Explanatory Index.
By John Ball, formerly of C. C. C. Oxon.
—— Res Antiquæ laudis, et artis
Ingredior. —— Vir. Geo. 2.
LONDON. Printed for the Benefit of the Translator, 1729.
J. Tinney Sculp.
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