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Record Nr.

UNISA996389760803316

Autore

Tavernier Jean-Baptiste <1605-1689.>

Titolo

Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies [[electronic resource] ] : Giving an account of the present state of those countries. As also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life-time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd The paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the grand seignior's seraglio, and also of all the kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian seas. Being the travels of Monsieur Tavernier Bernier, and other great men: adorned with many copper plates. The second volume

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard, M.DC.LXXXIV. [1684]

Descrizione fisica

[8], 154; [16], 87, [2]; 66  p., plates : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

PhillipsJohn <1631-1706.>

Soggetti

Indonesia Description and travel Early works to 1800

Japan Description and travel Early works to 1800

Taiwan Description and travel Early works to 1800

Mogul Empire Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Tavernier Bernier = Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (translation of part of his: Les six voyages. Paris, 1676).

Translated by John Phillips. Translation also attributed to Edmund Everard and Henry Oldenburg.

Bound with and identified as Wing T251 on UMI microfilm "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1801:4.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018