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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.' [‎84] (947/1024)

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 Particular Relation
inch matter. However, the young Man and the Maid con
tinued their Fidelity to each other, and that with fuch a clofe
relpeft, that at length the Virgin's Belly began to fwell
V hereupon flie made one of the Ladies of the City acquaint
ed how the cafe flood, as alfo of her Council, believing
mat the General upon notice how Affairs went, would mar
1 y her to keep all things private. But fo foon as the Lady
had revealed the Myflery, he was fo far from anfwering
tneir expectation, that he threw the young Man laden
with Fetters into pnfon, and fhut up the young Woman clofe
r n oner m her Chamber. Next day he call'd a Council
declard to them the Matter of Fad, and gave his Opinion’
that the young man deferv'd to lofe his Head, and that the
Maid fnould be whipp'd. The Council were of a contrary
J udgmenc, and advis d him to reconcile the Mifchance by a
Marriage. But notwithftanding all their perfuafionT the
General refolv d to have his own humour, the next day pri-
vately fent for the Executioner, and caufing the young xMan
and the Maid to be brought into his Hall, commanded the
Man s Head to be forthwith ftruck off, and the Virgin to be
whipp d though big with Child.
The Sieur Goyre commanded the Holland Fleet that was
lent to the he landed all his Souldiers, and moft
of his Mariners. When they began to march,he command
ed that not a man fhonld ftir out of his Pvank upon pain of
deatxn It happen'd that a young Souldier, whowastroub-
led with the Bloudy Flux, ftept a little afide to eafe Nature
which the faid Commander perceiving, caus’d him to be ap-
piehended and bound, and calling a Council of War would
have had him hang d • and when the Officers refus'd to give
sentence againft one that had committed no offence, he cau-
xed feven or eight Blacks of the Low Countries to hang him
up upon a Tree. But the Sieur Dirk /^Lieutenant Gene-
, mar , ln g by ln the nick of time, and feeing the poor Fel-
mw m that condition,prefently order'd him to be cut down
.md .0 lav d the poor Fellow's Life ; who returning into
Horuiad, and making his Complaint to the Company, the
Direftors wrote fmartiyto the General and Council 2 fL-
tavia about me bufineis ; who upon Examination of the
matter, in regard the Lad was fent by the Directors of the
Orphans Houle at Amjkrdam, condemned the Sieur Goyre
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.' [‎84] (947/1024), British Library: Printed Collections, 567.i.19., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100026187081.0x000094> [accessed 16 May 2024]

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