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*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_32096 ''A geographical description of the four parts of the world taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the french king, and other eminent travellers and authors. To which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world, compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof. Also, a treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled: the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures''] by Richard Blome 1670 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cihm_32096#page/n67/mode/2up India] page 49. “His atlas is full of information that merchants needed to conduct business overseas, with sections on each part of the world. The section on ‘India or the East Indies’ gives details of goods available at important trading centres such as Surat, the East India Company’s first base in India. Other information vital to traders is explained, for instance on coins, weights and measures. <ref>[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/09/east-india-company-trade-with-the-east-indies.html East India Company trade with the East Indies] 05 September 2017 British Library Untold Lives Blog.</ref> Unfortunately the text may be difficult to read at times. Also available in the Gale subscription database "The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories|Subscription websites]], for suggested access, as possibly the text may be clearer.
*''Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier, baron of Aubonne, tr. from the original French edition of 1676, with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc., by V. Ball''. 1889 [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00tavegoog#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org *[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org
*''A new account of the East Indies'' by Alexander Hamilton 1744 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-jNagGDT-PsC&pg=PR1 Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cV7RhS7iEV0C&pg=RA1-PR4 Volume 2] Google Books
*''A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies'' by Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 1804 edition, first published in an English translation 1783 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qqw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume 1],[http://books.google.com/books?id=2as1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2] (out of 6 volumes) Google Books
