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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.' [‎15] (334/1024)

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 Firft Book.
What Roads to tafy, in Travelling from Ifpahan to
Agra,from Agra to Debly Gehanabatt^^re
the Great Mogul Rejides at frefent : And horn to
Travel alfo to the Court of the Ring of Golconda ,*
to the King of Vilapour, and to many other Places
in the Indies.
CHAP. I.
.7 .
The Road from Ifpahan do Agra through Gomron .• Where is particu
larly dejcriUd the manner of Sailing from Ormus to Suratt.
N this Relation 6f my Indian, I will obferve the fame Method as in the Reci
tal of my Per pan Travels} and begin with the Defcription of the Roads ?
which lead you from Ifpahan to Dehly and Gehanadatt^ where the Great ^fo-
. gal Refides at prefent.
Though the Indies flretch themfelves front Per pa for the fpace of above 400
Leagues together, from the Ocean to that long Chain of Mountains that runs
through the middle of Apa from the Eaft to the Weft, and which was known to
Antiquity by the Name of Mount Caucafus, or Mount Taurus * yet there are not fb
wany ways to travel out of Per pa, into the Indies^ as there are to travel out of
Turhy into Perpa \ by reafon that between Perpa and the Indies there are nothing
but valt Sands and Defarts,where there is no water to be found. So that you have
but two Roads to choofe,in going from Ifpahan to Agra. The one is partly by
Land,and partly by Sea} taking Shi pat Ormus. The other altogether by Land,
through Candahar. The firft of thefe two Roads is amply defcrib’d,as far as Or-
the end of my firft Book of my Per pan Travels. So that I am now only
to [peak of the manner of Sailing from Ormus to Suratt.
There is no Sailing at all times upon the Indian as upon the European Seas:
ou muft obferve the proper Seafons, which being elaps’d, there is no more ven-
unng. The Months of November, December, January, February and March, are
e 0Il y Months in the year to Embark from Ormus to Suratt \ and from Suratt
to

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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.' [‎15] (334/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187078.0x000087> [accessed 27 April 2024]

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