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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ‪''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras''‬] by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j5NeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ‪''The Travels of Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel: From Jerusalem, Through Arabia, Koordistan, Part of Persia, and India to Madras''‬] by Rabbi David D'Beth Hillel 1832 Google Books
*''Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes'' ‬ by Major Archer, late Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere 1833 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hzxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*''Tours in Upper India and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains: With Accounts of the Courts of the Native Princes'' ‬ by Major Archer, late Aid-De-Camp to Lord Combermere 1833 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=PF5jAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=hzxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East With Revelations of Life in the Zenana'' by Fanny Parkes [Parks] (sometimes seen as  Fanny Parkes Parlby). [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg02parluoft Volume II] 1850 Archive.org. She came to India in 1822 with her husband, a  civil servant,  probably Charles Crawford Parks, appointed  a Writer in 1816. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview35  "Lady of the Raj"] by William Dalrymple 10 June 2007 ''The Guardian''.
*''Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty Years in the East With Revelations of Life in the Zenana'' by Fanny Parkes [Parks] (sometimes seen as  Fanny Parkes Parlby). [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg01parluoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/wanderingsofpilg02parluoft Volume II] 1850 Archive.org. She came to India in 1822 with her husband Charles Crawford Parks, a  civil servant, appointed  a Writer in 1816. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview35  "Lady of the Raj"] by William Dalrymple 10 June 2007 ''The Guardian''.  [http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah/fanny-parks-case-study/  "Fanny Parks (1794-1875): her ‘Grand Moving Diorama of Hindostan’, her Museum, and her Cabinet of Curiosities"] by Joanna Goldsworthy. Case study from ''East India Company At Home, 1757-1857''.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xagyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Wall-Street to Cashmere‬: ‪A Journal of Five Years in Asia, Africa and Europe''‬] by John B Ireland 1859 Google Books ”With nearly one hundred illustrations, from sketches made on the spot by the author” [https://archive.org/details/wallstreettocash1859irel  Archive.org version] Some individual pages may be clearer. The author arrived in India in January 1853 and departed April 1854, with a journey to Ceylon, Java and Singapore in the middle . He was an American lawyer [http://brookhavensouthhaven.org/hamletpeople/tng/getperson.php?personID=I123&tree=hamlet John Busteed Ireland] 1823- 1913
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074488440 ''Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and Petticoats; or, An Overland Journey from China towards India''] by T T Cooper, late Agent for the Chamber of Commerce at Calcutta 1871 Archive.org. Contains a map.

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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)
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, Archive.org; Volume 2, Archive.org; Volume 3, Archive.org 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. Archive.org.
  • 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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