Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800 and 1801, in company with the Turkish army and the British military mission, by William Wittman. London: Richard Phillips, 1803. English. First edition. William Wittman's travelogue; Wittman, served as surgeon to the British Military Mission that allied with the Ottoman Army against Napoleon. The work is illustrated with twenty four plates: 21 aquatints, 16 of them hand-colored, depicting views and costumes in the Ottoman Empire: "The Capitan Bachi" (Grand admiral of the Ottoman navy Küçük Hüseyin Pasha), "The Governor of the Gates of the Seraglio and Chief of the White Eunuchs", "Member of the Ottoman Light Cavalry", "chief cook of the Janissaries", "Albanian soldier", "The Toutoun Bashii of the Grand Vezier or Chief of the Tobacco", and others; a folding map of the Mediterranean Basin (with the route of Wittman's journey), a hand-colored map of the tent camps surrounding Jaffa and a large engraving featuring an Ottoman ferman. Two engravings – Jaffa from the sea and the Julien Fort were made after drawings by Francis B. Spilsbury. xvi, 503, [4], 484-595, [1] pp. + [21] plates (16 hand-colored), [2] maps (one hand-colored) and [1] print of a Turkish ferman, approx. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Minor worming to margins. Minor tears to edges of some leaves (some open, not affecting text); tears to folding plates (affecting print), some repaired with paper. Handwriting in the margins of the title page. Bookplate on inside front board. Semi-leather binding, slightly blemished. The front board is loose.