The following are among the most important books of travel relating to this district; Pococke _Description of the East and Some Other Countries_, Vol. II, Part II, London 1745; Chandler _Travels in Asia Minor_ etc., Oxford 1775; Leake _Tour in Asia Minor_, London 1824; Arundell _Discoveries in Asia Minor_, London 1834; Hamilton _Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus, and Armenia_, London 1842; Fellows _Asia Minor_, London 1839, _Discoveries in Lycia_, London 1840; de Tchihatcheff _Asie Mineure, Description Physique, Statistique et Archéologique_, Paris 1853 etc., with the accompanying Atlas (1860); de Laborde _Voyage de l’Asie Mineure_ (the expedition itself took place in 1826, but the date on the title-page is 1838, and the introduction was written in 1861); Le Bas _Voyage Archéologique en Grèce et en Asie Mineure_, continued by Waddington and not yet completed; Texier _Description de l’Asie Mineure_, Vol. I (1839). It is hardly necessary to add the smaller works of Texier and Le Bas on _Asie Mineure_ (Paris 1862, 1863) in Didot’s series _L’Univers_, as these have only a secondary value. Of the books enumerated, Hamilton’s work is the most important for the topography, etc.; Tchihatcheff’s for the physical features; and Le Bas and Waddington’s for the inscriptions, etc. The best maps are those of Hamilton and Tchihatcheff; to which should be added the _Karte von Klein-Asien_ by v. Vincke and others, published by Schropp, Berlin 1844.
Besides books on Asia Minor generally, some works relating especially to the Seven Churches may be mentioned. Smith’s _Survey of the Seven Churches of Asia_ (1678) is a work of great merit for the time, and contains the earliest description of the sites of these Phrygian cities. It was published in Latin first, and translated by its author afterwards. Arundell’s _Seven Churches_ (1828) is a well-known book. Allom and Walsh’s _Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor illustrated_ (1850) gives some views of this district. Svoboda’s _Seven Churches of Asia_ (1869) contains 20 photographs and an introduction by the Rev. H. B. Tristram. This is a selection from a larger series of Svoboda’s photographs, published separately.