_The present State of_ Constantinople, _I mean as to the Meanness and Poverty of its Buildings, is attested by all those, who have either seen, or wrote concerning it; so that ’tis not_ Now _to be compar’d with it self, as it stood in its Antient Glory. The_ Turks _have such an Aversion to all that is curious in Learning, or magnificent in Architecture, or valuable in Antiquity, that they have made it a Piece of Merit, for above 200 Years, to demolish, and efface every thing of that Kind; so that this Account of the_ Antiquities _of that City given us by_ Gyllius, _is not only the_ Best, _but indeed the_ Only _collective History of them_. _In tracing out the Buildings of Old_ Byzantium, _the antient_ Greek _Historians, which he perfectly understood, were of great Service to him; this, with his own personal Observations, as residing for some Years at_ Constantinople, _furnish’d him with Materials sufficient for the present History_. _The Curious, who have always admir’d the Accuracy of this Work of_ Gyllius, _have yet been highly concern’d, that it wanted the Advantage of Cuts, by which the Reader might have the agreeable Pleasure of surveying with the Eye, what my Author has so exactly describ’d with the Pen_. _I have therefore endeavour’d to supply this Defect, by presenting to the View of the Reader a Collection of Figures, which do not only refer to such Curiosities as be will find mention’d in the several Parts of my Author, but such as have been describ’d by other later Travellers; and by this Means I hope I have given a compleat View of whatsoever is most remarkable in the_ Antiquities of Constantinople. _The Catalogue and Order of the Cuts is as follows_; I. _The_ Thracian Bosporus, _with the Situation of_ Constantinople, _as antiently divided into_ Wards; _from_ Du Fresne. II. _A Delineation of that City, as it stood in the Year 1422, before it was taken by the_ Turks; _from the same_. III. _The Ichnography, or Plan of the Church of_ Sancta Sophia; _from the same_. IV. _The whole View of the Church of_ Sancta Sophia; _from the same_. V. _The outside Prospect of that Church; from the same._ VI. _The inside View of it; from the same._ VII. _The Plan of the Church of the Apostles; from Sir_ George Wheler. VIII. _The antient_ Hippodrom, _with the_ Thebæan Obelisk, _and the Engines by which it was erected; from_ Spon _and_ Wheler. IX. _The Three Pillars_, viz. _the Serpentine and Porphyry Pillars, standing in the_ Hippodrom, _as described by_ Gyllius, _with the Pillar of the Emperor_ Marcian, _since discover’d by_ Spon _and_ Wheler _in a private Garden; from_ B. Randolph. X. _The Historical Pillar, described by_ Gyllius, _and since by_ Tournefort; _from_ Du Fresne. XI. _A View of the Seraglio Point, with a Representation of the present Imperial Palace, and the Church of_ Sancta Sophia; _from_ B. Randolph.