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'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. 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 TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎118] (157/1024)

The record is made up of 1 volume (898 pages). It was created in 1684. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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Smyrna,
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Lemnos,
'Xenedos,
Negropont,
The Vardan els,
Athens,
Barut,
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Tyre,
St. John of Vacres,
Antioch,
Trebizond,
S inopus.
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Medilli.
Iimir.
Eski Iftamboul
Limio.
Bogge-adafi.
Eghirbos.
Bogaz-ki.
Atina.
Biroult.
Saida.
Sour.
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Antexia.
Tarabozan.
Sinap.
jn the Fortiefs of Sinopus, at the lower part of the Wall there is a Stonetolt
feen where there is an Infcription in Latin abbreviated, with the word Rome irut, j
whence feme conjecture may be made that the Remans built it.
The Mediterranean Sea, Akdcniis. I
The Ocean, Der.jay Mouhut.
The Black, Sea, Kara-Denus.
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Remarks upon the 'Trade ofthfc IJland of Czn&yi and theftinctyi
IJksof the Archipelago, as alfo upon fome of tfafttus]
Greece adjoining ; with a particular Relation ofthe prefat Con
dition of the Grand Signor s Galleys, belonging as well to tk
Jfles as to the Continent.
Of the ISLAND of CANDY.
O UT of the Ifland of Candy Strangers export great (lore of Wheat®! i
Sallet-Oyl, all forts of Pulfe, Cheefe, yellow Wax, Cottons, W .
but more efpecially Malmfey, wherein confifts its chiefeft Trade. WW
Vintage draws near, the Country-people that are to gather the Owps |
wrap their Feet in a piece of a Boar’s Skin, which they tye together upon t
upper part of the Foot with a piece of Pack-thred, to preferve their Feet from _ It
violent heat of the Rocks upon which they are to tread. Thofe Skins I
out of Ruffta by the Ruffes, that bring Botargoand Caviare to ConjUntinople, vvna |
they have a vaft vent for it all over Xurky, Perfia, and Ethiopia-, whetet y I
follow the Greek, and Armenian Church, eat little or nothing elfe all the »•
the way take notice, that the Lurks ma he a certain Glew out of Sturgeon, wnic i J
beft in the World, fo that whatever is faften’d with it, will rather break in another p j
than where it is glew’d. They make it thus: When they have caught a Sturg^ . ,
pull out his Guts, and then there remains a Skin that covers the Flelh i t is
they take off from the head to the belly. It is very clammyj and about t e , ^
nefs of two Sheets of Paper, which they roll as thick as a Man’s Arm, an
dry in the Sun. When they ufe it, they beat it with a Mallet, an w n ^
well beat’n they break it into pieces, and deep it in Water for halt an o
little Pot. . ,
When the Venetians were Mahers of Candy, they that had comtnitted any ' |
which deferv’d Death, if they could get out of the Bland before they vki j

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Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. 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 TavernierBernier, and other great men.

Author: John-Baptist Tavernier

Publication details: Printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's Churchyard, MDCLXXXIV [1864].

Physical description: Pagination. Vol. 1: [18], 184, 195-264, [2]; [2], 214; [6], 94, [6], 101-113, [1] p., [23] leaves of plates (1 folded). Vol. 2: [8], 154; [12], 14, [2], 15-46, 47-87, [3]; 66 p., [10] leaves of plates (2 folded).

Misprinted page numbers. Vol. 1, part I: 176 instead of 169; 169 instead of 176; 201 instead of 209; 202 instead of 210. Vol. 1, part II: 56 instead of 58; 61 instead of 63; 178 instead of 187. Vol. 1, part III: 13 instead of 30; 49 instead of 48. Vol. 2, part II: 93 instead of 39.

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1 volume (898 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings and page references which covers all four books within the volume. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles anf page references. There is an alphabetic index at the end of Books I and II and a separate alphabetic index of place names which accompanies the map at the beginning of book IV.

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'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. 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 TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎118] (157/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187077.0x00009e> [accessed 21 June 2026]

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