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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.' [‎105] (424/1024)

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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The End of the Fir ft Bool\.
Travels in In d i a
kind of one I would have. I told him, lince he was pleas’d to give me my choice,
that I rather delir’da young lively Horfe, rather than an old one. Thereupon he
fent me one that was fo given to bounding and prancing, that he threw a young
Hollander out of the Saddle; but upon my delire to have him chang’d,hefent me
another, which 1 fold afterwards for four hundred Roupies.
From Amadabat I return’d to Surat ^ from Surat I travefd again to G ok on da ^
and thence to the Mine to buy Diamonds. From whence returning back for Su-
rat, l refolv’d for Terfia.
B Eing upon my return to Surat from the Diamond Mine, I uiiderftood that the
War was proclaim’d between the Englifij and the Hollanders, and the lat
ter would fend no more Ships into Perjia. The English alfo gave out the fame re-
folutions; for indeed they had fent four Ships into Pcrfia, which they expe&ed
back every hour. While I was thus in fear of ftaying long in a place where I had
no bulinefs, there arriv’d at Surat five great Dutch Ships from Batavia ^ three
of which being rather Men of War, than Merchant-Men, were order’d to be un*
laden with all fpeed, with an intention to look out for the four Engliffli Vefiels
that were expected out of Perfia. The other two were appointed to follow
two or three days after, being in that time to take in provifions for the whole
Fleet
In one of thofe two Veflels I embark’d, and fetting fayl the eighth of January,
we came before Diu the twelfth, where we overtook the other three Ships.
There it was debated at a Council of War,what courfe to (leer to meet thei^**
ll\h ; and it was refolv’d,that we Ihould fteer away for Sc'wdi, where we arriv’d
the twentieth of the fame month, and ftay’d there till the twenty-eighth, and
then fetting fail with a fair wind, we landed at Gomromths feventh of March.
CHAP. XX.
My return from Surat to Ormus
ulfi c.

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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.' [‎105] (424/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187079.0x000019> [accessed 18 June 2026]

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