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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.' [‎4] (847/1024)

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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A New and Varticular Relation of the
tke fame foundation to lay the Structure of thefe Memoirs.
Thought may fafely fay, I was no lefs laborious in my
own particular, and by the frequent Difcourfes which I had
with a great number of the Tunquinefes, with whom I met
both at Bantam and Batavia that came thither to Trade, and
whom I often treated at my own Expences, to inform
my felf of the particular Ceremonies and Cuftoms of their
Country.
Thus you fee the Grounds and Foundations of this Rela
tion , which is both faithful and exact, and by which that
noble Country, of which the Deferiptions hitherto have
been fo obfcure and uncertain, (hall be truly difcovef d and
let forth, fuchasitis ; declaring withal, that no other Con-
fideration or Intereft, then that of fpeaking truth, has incited
me to undertake this Defcription.
For the better obfervation of a right Method in puriiiance
of this Relation, and to conduct the Reader graiatim to
the more perfedt knowledge of this Kingdom, I will fpeak
firft of its Situation, its Extent, and its Climate. Next I
fhallcome todifcourfe of its Qualities, its Riches, audits
Trade, which are the three Springs and Sources of the
Strength and Force of a Nation. Next I fhall give an Ac
count of the Cuftoms and Manners of the People as well in
their particular OEconomy and Civil Society, as in relation
to their Marriages, their Vifits and Feftivals. Next to this
We fhall give a brief Account of the Learning, and learned
Men, and among them of their Phyficians, and theSubjed
of their Art, that is to fay, of the Difeafes particular to the
Country. We fhall alfo give a Relation of the Original of
the Government and Policy of the Kingdom of Tunquin, of
the Condition of the Court, of the Inauguration and Fune
rals of their Kings, and in the laft place of the Original of
the Inhabitants.
And I dare ingage, that the Map of the Country, and the
Cuts which were drawn upon the place, will no Ids contri
bute to the Divertifement of the Reader, then to the Expla
nation of the Matter which they contain.

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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.' [‎4] (847/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187081.0x000030> [accessed 20 April 2024]

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