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*[https://archive.org/details/sixvoyagesofjohn00tave_0 ''The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670''...] 1678 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/ACollectionOfSeveralRelationsTreatisesSingularAndCuriousOfJohn ''A collection of several relations & treatises singular and curious of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, not printed among his first six voyages''] 1680 Archive.org
:''Travels in India'' by John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne. Translated from the original French edition of 1676 by V Ball (Valentine), Director of the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 1889. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia01tave/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia02tave/page/n8/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org.
:2nd edition: [https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia00tave/page/n8/mode/2up Volume I] and [https://archive.org/details/travelsinindia00tave/page/n441/mode/2up Volume II] (one digital file) 1925, edited by William Crooke, late of Indian Civil Service. Archive.org. This edition includes revisions made by Dr Ball prior to his death in 1895, but not published.
*''Travels in the Mogul Empire, A.D. 1656-1668'' by Francois Bernier. 1826 edition, translated by Irving Brock [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fsTlcjAJC9kC&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D7oRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume II] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6093710_000 1891 edition], revised by Archibald Constable. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/travelsinmogulem00bernuoft 1916 edition], revised by Vincent A Smith. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ageographicalac00bowrgoog ''A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679''] by Thomas Bowrey. Edited by Lt-Col Sir Richard Carnac Temple 1905. Printed for the Hakluyt Society (Second Series, No 12)) Archive.org. With illustrations. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn4xkq?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library version], where it is possible to rotate the Plates.
*''The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674''. Tr. from the ms. journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and ed. by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. In three volumes (Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series ; No. 95-97) 1947-48. Volume I '' From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur''... [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59320 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling ''Abbé Carré''. (Volume II is ''From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by De la Haye and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch''. Volume III '' Return journey to France'').Translation of ''Le courier de l'Orient''.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Includes Bombaim [Bombay], Surat. Goa. Includes, facing p114 drawings of the Areca Nut or Betele nut, and other plants. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CrYIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 Google Books edition] which appears to contain some, but not all illustrations.
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. , in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. Volume 1, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org versionVolume 1], mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 2, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org versionVolume 2], mirror from Digital Library of India; Volume 3, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506 Volume 3] Archive.org version], mirror mirrors from Digital Library of India. Additional digital files may be available.
*[https://archive.org/details/indiainseventeen00dasguoft ''India in the seventeenth century, as depicted by European travellers''] by JN Das Gupta 1916 Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NmpCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR4 ‪ ''A Voyage to Suratt: In the Year, 1689'']‬ by John Ovington. Chaplain to his Majesty. 1696 Google Books
*''A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time''‬ by Robert Kerr 1824 editions, first published c 1811. Volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX have the majority of the content relating to India, other volumes listed have less relevant content, (while volumes not listed to do appear to have any relevant content). Google Books, Archive.org, and Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUI9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR15 Contents].[https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryco02kerrrich Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/generalhistoryco02kerrrich#page/n5/mode/2up Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c8I6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR4 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=B8Q6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume VIII] 1813 edition [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WkM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3510755?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Volume VIII] 1824. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume IX] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kUM9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Contents].[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 Volume XI], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=UScwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 Contents]. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol XVII], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kNw6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR7 Contents] (Includes of a voyage including Macao and Canton). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Gkg9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume XVIII] A Summary volume titled ''Historical Sketch'' by William Stevenson
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024059705 ''Early English Adventurers in the East''] by Arnold Wright 1917 Archive.org
* ''Early English Travellers In India'' by Ram Chandra Prasad 1965. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.532468 Archive,.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://travel-letters.org/kindersley/ The Travel Letters of Mrs. Kindersley], transcriptions from the book first published in 1777 ''Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies''. The letters from India commence with Letter 18 in Pondicherry June 1765 and conclude with letter 67 from Calcutta in 1768. Note: Only the first page of the letter is displayed, click on the image for a full transcription. travel-letters.org. This book appears also to be available on "Eighteenth century collections online", for more details see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]]. [Jemima Kindersley, (1741-1809). Wife of Lieutenant Nathaniel Kindersley (1732–1769) of the Royal Artillery and later, from 27 July 1764, Captain in the East India Company's Bengal Artillery.]
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jCBhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Travels, in various parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, during a series of thirty years and upwards''] by John MacDonald, 1790. Google Books. Pages 154-278 cover the time the author (born 1741) spent In India as a servant c late 1760s/early 1770s. Republished in 1927 under the title ''Memoirs of an eighteenth-century footman, John Macdonald : Travels (1745-1779)''. [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004857217.0001.000 A transcription] ECCO-TPC umich.edu.
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