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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fa82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5  ''A ‪voyage to the East-Indies: giving an account of the isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus, and the coast of Brasil, with the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. as also a Treatise, of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries‬''] by Monsieur Dellon, M.D. Translated from the French. 1698 Google Books . First published in French 1685. [https://archive.org/details/avoyagetoeastin00crulgoog Archive.org version] Same file but different coloured pages may be easier to read.  [https://archive.org/details/nouvellerelatio00marrgoog 1699 French reprint] Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fa82AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5  ''A ‪voyage to the East-Indies: giving an account of the isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus, and the coast of Brasil, with the religion, manners and customs of the inhabitants, &c. as also a Treatise, of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries‬''] by Monsieur Dellon, M.D. Translated from the French. 1698 Google Books . First published in French 1685. [https://archive.org/details/avoyagetoeastin00crulgoog Archive.org version] Same file but different coloured pages may be easier to read.  [https://archive.org/details/nouvellerelatio00marrgoog 1699 French reprint] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/accountofinquisi00dell ''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 <ref>[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com/2013/04/charles-claude-gabriel-dellon-frenchman.html  "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar"]  14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.</ref>(Damaun)
:[https://archive.org/details/accountofinquisi00dell ''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 <ref>[http://historicalleys.blogspot.com/2013/04/charles-claude-gabriel-dellon-frenchman.html  "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar"]  14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.</ref>(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.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59320 Probably Volume I]. Pdf download Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59320  Archive.org version]. Original title includes alternative spelling ''Abbé Carré''
*''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.  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/59320 Volume I] '' From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur''... Pdf download Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59320  Archive.org version]. 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.
*[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. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org version];  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506  Archive.org version], Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
: 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. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Archive.org version];  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/31953 Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/49506 Volume 3], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506  Archive.org version], Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India, with additional digital files available.
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*''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''  [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm01manuuoft  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm02manuuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm03manuuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm04manu Volume IV]. 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''  [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm01manuuoft  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm02manuuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm03manuuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/storiadomogororm04manu Volume IV]. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/pepysofmongulind00manurich  ''A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci''] 1913 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/pepysofmongulind00manurich  ''A Pepys of Mongul India, 1653-1708 : being an abridged edition of the "Storia do Mogor" of Niccolao Manucci''] 1913 Archive.org.
*[http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=sea:175#page/8/mode/2up  ''A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies : with a description of the said island … Also a description of the islands of Canary, Cape Verd, Java, Madura; of the streights of Bally, the Cape of Good Hope, the Hottentots, the island of St. Helena, Ascension etc''] by Captain  Daniel Beeckman 1718. The first chapter states he was  in the service of the East India Company. He sailed from England  October 1713. South East Asia Visions Cornell University Library. Note, may be very slow to open.
*''A New Account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon'' 1727 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ombp1gBqKsC&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YCoCwtJd1gC&pg=PP5 Volume II]  Google Books.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39274 Modern reprint of Volume I, 1739 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39275  Modern reprint of Volume II 1739 edition], both Archive.org, from Digital Library of India
*''A New Account of the East Indies, being the observations and remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton, who spent his time there from the year 1688. to 1723. Trading and travelling, by sea and land, to most of the countries and islands of commerce and navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japon'' 1727 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=1ombp1gBqKsC&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YCoCwtJd1gC&pg=PP5 Volume II]  Google Books.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39274 Modern reprint of Volume I, 1739 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39275  Modern reprint of Volume II 1739 edition], both Archive.org, from Digital Library of India
*''Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies'' by M. Cornelius Le Bruyn 1737 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70528 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286322 Volume  2] Archive.org
*''Travels Into Muscovy, Persia, and Part of the East Indies'' by M. Cornelius Le Bruyn 1737 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70528 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.286322 Volume  2] Archive.org
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:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163310/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “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
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20120313163310/http://www.iras.ucalgary.ca/~volk/sylvia/Desert2.htm “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 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcpZz402GcwC&pg=PR7 ''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 [https://archive.org/details/TheDesertRouteToIndia  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.  
:Sample pages from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcpZz402GcwC&pg=PR7 ''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 [https://archive.org/details/TheDesertRouteToIndia  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.  
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=c3oBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Journal from Calcutta, by sea, to Busserah: from thence across the Great Desart to Aleppo; and from thence to Marseilles, and through France, to England, in... 1750 by Mr Bartholomew Plaisted, in the East India Company’s Service. To which are added, directions by Capt. E. Elliot, for passing over the Little Desart from Busserah, etc. And A Journal of the Proceedings of the Doddington East-Indiaman, till she was unfortunately wrecked on the East Coast of Africa etc''] Second Edition 1758 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.24163 Archive.org version].
*[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
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/62817 ''The Overland Route From India''] by Stanley Jepson 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version].
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/62817 ''The Overland Route From India''] by Stanley Jepson 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62817 Archive.org version].
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/  ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944.  Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739.  It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review  ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
===Bibliography===
*[https://archive.org/details/referenceguideto030515mbp ''A Reference Guide To The Literature Of Travel Volume One: The Old World''] by Edward Godfrey Cox 1948 reprint edition, originally published 1935. Archive.org. Included chapters East Indies, Far East etc


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 02:34, 1 April 2018

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. Volume I From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur... Pdf download Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. 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.
  • 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, Archive.org version; Volume 2, Archive.org version; Volume 3, Archive.org version, 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 version.
  • 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
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III Google Books
Volume I, Volume II, Volume III British Library Digital Collection. Images can be rotated.
Some sources give her names as Eleanor Louisa, Mrs Thomas Kibble. However, another source gives her as Julia Harvey, born 1825, the daughter of William Morton an engineer and his wife Juliana. [2] There was a marriage in Cawnpore 10 September 1845 of Julian Susan Morton , age 20, to Edward Harvey, Captain 10th Light Cavalry. He appears to be still alive in the late 1850s, so if this identification was correct, she did not undertake the journey due to widowhood. Article about the book by Christina Stoltz exploringtibet.wikischolars.columbia.edu
A varied life: a record of military and civil service, of sport and of travel in India, Central Asia and Persia 1849 -1902 by Gen. Sir Thomas Edward Gordon. 1906 Archive.org. Also see Iran for another book by this author.
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.

Bibliography

References

  1. "Charles (Claude) Gabriel Dellon, the Frenchman in Malabar" 14 April 2013 Historic Alleys.
  2. Snippet Search result from ‪In Their Own Words: British Women Writers and India, 1740-1857‬ by Rosemary Raza 2006 Google Books
  3. Book review Sunday Times (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947 trove.nla.gov.au