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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA3 "A Journal from Aleppo, over the Desert to Basserah, October 21, 1771"] by Mr Carmichael, the appendix to ''A voyage to the East Indies: Volume 1'' by John Henry Grose 1772. Google Books. Mr Carmichael had been dismissed from the East India Company and was refused a passage to India on board any of the Company's ships. This book commences with a description of a [http://books.google.com/books?id=RrA2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 sea voyage to Bombay in 1750]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HMMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''‪Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt: Also by Vienna Through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from Thence by Bagdad and Directly Across the Great Desert to Bassora : With Occasional Remarks on the Adjacent Countries, an Account of the Different Stages, and Sketches of the Several Routes on Four Copper Plates''‬] by James Capper. Third edition with Alterations and Additions 1785 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XppeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Travels in Asia and Africa: Including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and Over the Desert to Bagdad and Bussora, a Voyage from Bussora to Bombay, and Along the Western Coast of India, a Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the Red Sea, and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta, in Egypt‬''] by the late Abraham Parsons [died 1785] 1808 Google Books
*''A Journey From Bengal To England: Through The Northern Part Of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, And Persia And Into Russia By The Caspian-Sea'' by George  Forster in the Civil Service of the Honourable The  East- India Company 1798 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-mpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=A2tBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 Volume II] Google Books
*''A Journey From Bengal To England: Through The Northern Part Of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, And Persia And Into Russia By The Caspian-Sea'' by George  Forster in the Civil Service of the Honourable The  East- India Company 1798 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-mpBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=A2tBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP1 Volume II] Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/voyageuppersiang00heudiala ''A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, and a Journey Overland from India to England, in 1817''] by Lieutenant William Heude of the Madras Military Establishment 1819 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/voyageuppersiang00heudiala ''A Voyage up the Persian Gulf, and a Journey Overland from India to England, in 1817''] by Lieutenant William Heude of the Madras Military Establishment 1819 Archive.org

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Historical books online

Frampton’s 1579 book The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marcus Paulus… was republished in 1929 as The Most Noble and Famous Travels of Marco Polo, together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti, edited by N M Penzer. "The Travels of Nicolò de' Conti in the East" page 124 and Appendix I, page 259 2nd edition 1937 (enlarged). Archive.org
An account of Nicolo de’ Conti is found in Chapters IX and and X of Pero Tafur: Travels and adventures 1435-1439 translated and edited with an introduction by Malcolm Letts. 1926 from page 84 with Notes page 241 Archive.org
‪India in the Fifteenth Century‬: ‪Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India ... from Latin, Persian, Russian and Italian Sources ... Translated Into English edited by Richard Henry Major 1857. Printed for the Hakluyt Society. Google Books. Also available on Archive.org. The Travels of Abd-Er-Razzak; Nicolo Conti, translated from the original of Poggio Bracciolini, papal secretary, with notes, by J.W. Jones; Athanasius Nikitin, a native of Twer; Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese.
Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others by Samuel Purchas 1905 reprint, original 1625 Archive.org. Volume II, Contents. Volume III, Contents. Volume IV, Contents. Volume V, Contents. Other volumes: Archive.org
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
An Account of the Inquisition at Goa, in India. Translated from the French of M. Dellon 1819 Archive.org. Translated from a copy printed in Paris in 1687. The events happened in 1674. Dellon, a physician spent some time in North Malabar and was operating out of the French factory in Tellicherry for five years after which he left the French services. Six months later, he was in jail In Daman [1](Damaun)
  • 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. Probably Volume I. Pdf download Digital Library of India. Original title includes alternative spelling Abbé Carré
  • 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. 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, Volume 2, Volume 3 Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
A Voyage To Surat In The Year 1689 by John Ovington, edited by H G Rawlinson, with commentary, 1929 is available to download as a pdf from Osmania University Digital Library [OUDL]. Restricted download hours may possibly apply. This book is also available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, in TIFF format, or as a pdf download.
  • Storia do Mogor; or, Mogul India 1653-1708 by Niccolao Manucci, Venetian, translated by William Irvine, Bengal Civil Service (retired) 1907. Part of Indian Texts Series Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV. Archive.org.
A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci 1913 Archive.org.
Table of Contents, computer pages 28-31; General index of Persons commencing part O-Z computer pages 632-633; General Index of Things A-Z computer pages 634-637.
For more details of the author, see List of Indian Civil Servants
British Library version with illustrations; Archive.org version. Lacks illustrations

The Overland Route to and from India

“Account of a Journey from Basra to Aleppo in 1748” by Gaylard Roberts from The Desert Route to India by Douglas Carruthers from Sylvia Volk’s Page of Asia, now archived
Sample pages from The Desert Route to India edited by Douglas Carruthers 1929. Google Books. Full title: The Desert Route to India : being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra, 1745-1751. This book is available on Archive.org where, for ease of reading, a djvu or (Bit)Torrent plug-in may be required. Accounts by William Beawes, Gayland Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, John Carmichael.

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