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: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 [https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_6352599_000#page/n109/mode/2up page 84] with Notes [https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_6352599_000#page/n273/mode/2up page 241] Archive.org
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_nhWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 '' 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 [https://archive.org/details/indiainfifteenth22majo Archive.org]. The Travels of Abd-Er-Razzak; [https://archive.org/stream/indiainfifteenth22majo#page/n149/mode/2up 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofludovic00vartrich ''The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508''] Translated by John Winter Jones and edited by George Percy Badger. Printed for the Hakluyt Society 1863 Archive.org. The author was born in Bologna, c 1470.
**[https://archive.org/details/TheItineraryOfLudovicoDiVarthemaOfBolognaFrom1502To1508 "The Itinerary of Ludovico Di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 To 1508"] Extracts relating to Burma. Edited for the ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'' Volume 2, No 2, 2004, pages 119-129 by Michael W. Charney. Archive.org.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oGcMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 ''A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese. Translated from an early Spanish manuscript in the Barcelona library''] with notes and a preface by Henry E. J. Stanley. 1866 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsandadven00reisgoog ''The travels and adventures of the Turkish Admiral Sidi Ali Reis in India, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Persia, during the years 1553-1556''] Tanslated from the Turkish by A Vambery 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n9/mode/2up ''Early Travels in India, 1583-1619''] edited by William Foster 1921 Archive.org. Accounts of seven travellers. [https://archive.org/stream/earlytravelsinin00fostuoft#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/533354 ''Voyages of Sir James Lancaster to Brazil and the East Indies 1591-1603''] by William Foster 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofjohnjou00jour ''The Journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617 : describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay Archipelago''] edited by William Foster. Printed for the Hakluyt Society . Second Series, Volume XVI. 1905 Archive.org. The author was in the service of the East India Company.
*[https://archive.org/details/earlytravelsini00linsgoog ''Early Travels in India, being reprints of rare and curious narratives of old travellers in India, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First Series, comprising "Purchas's Pilgrimage" and the "Travels of Van Linschoten"'']. 1864 Archive.org:''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. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft Volume II], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum02purcuoft#page/vi/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft Volume III], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum03purcuoft#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum04purc Volume IV], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum04purc#page/n9/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/details/hakluytusposthum05purc Volume V], [https://archive.org/stream/hakluytusposthum05purc#page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Purchas+His+Pilgrimes&sort=-publicdate&page=1 Other volumes: Archive.org]
*''The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619, as narrated in his journal and correspondence''. Edited by William Foster 1899 [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma03roegoog Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/embassysirthoma00roegoog Volume II] Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.15313516?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Travels in India in the Seventeenth Century''] by Sir Thomas Roe and Dr John Fryer. Reprinted from the ''Calcutta Weekly Englishman'' 1873 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/22953 Pdf download] Digital Library of India.
