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Filed under: India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800- A Voyage to the East Indies: Containing Authentic Accounts of the Mogul Government in General, the Viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, With Their Several Subordinate Dependencies (new edition in 2 volumes, with A Journey From Aleppo to Busserah; London: Printed for S. Hooper, 1772), by John Henry Grose, contrib. by John Carmichael
- Voyage dans l'Inde et au Bengale, Fait dans les Années 1789 et 1790 (2 volumes in French; Paris: Dentu, 1801), by L. de Grandpré (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the year 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale (with A Voyage in the Red Sea; Boston: Printed by D. Carlisle for W. Pelham and and W. P. and L. Blake, 1803), by L. de Grandpré
- A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Years 1789 and 1790: Containing an Account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale (with A Voyage in the Red Sea, in 2 volumes; London: Printed for G. and J. Robinson, 1803), by L. de Grandpré (both volumes :page images at loc.gov)
- A Narrative of the Military Operations of the Coromandel Coast, Against the Combined Forces of the French, Dutch and Hyder Ally Cawn, From the Year 1780 to the Peace in 1784 (London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley, 1789), by Innes Munro (page images at HathiTrust)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
- The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Through Turky, Into Persia and the East-Indies, For the Space of Forty Years (London: Printed by W. Godbid for R. Littlebury and M. Pitt, 1677), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, trans. by John Phillips (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, trans. by V. Ball
- Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (second edition; London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, ed. by William Crooke, trans. by V. Ball
- The Voyage of Nearchus; and The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea (Greek text with English translation and notes; Oxford: At the University Press, 1809), by Arrian, trans. by William Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
- A voyage to the East Indies : containing an account of the manners, customs, &c. of the natives, with a geographical description of the country. Collected from observations made during a residence of thirteen years, between 1776 and 1789, in districts little frequented by the Europeans (1800), by a S. Bartholomaeo Paulinus, Johann Reinhold Forster, and William Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some years travel into divers parts of Asia and Afrique : describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and great Mogull ... as also, many ... kingdomes in the Orientall India and other parts of Asia ; together with the adjacent iles ... with a revivall of the first discoverer of America (Printed by R. Bip. for I. Blome and R. Bishop, 1638), by Thomas Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Ancient accounts of India and China (Printed for S. Harding, 1733), by Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī, Eusèbe Renaudot, and al-tājir Sulaymān (page images at HathiTrust)
- Viaggi di Pietro della Valle, il pellegrino : descritti da lui medesimo in lettere familiari all' erudito suo amico Mario Schipano, divisi in tre parti cioè: La Turchia, la Persia, e l'India, colla vita e ritratto dell' autore ... (Brighton : G. Gancia, 1843., 1843), by Pietro Della Valle and Mario Schipano (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyage du marchand arabe Sulaymân en Inde et en Chine (EÌditions Bossard, 1922), by Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī, Gabriel Ferrand, and al-taÌ„jir SulaymaÌ„n (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A geographical account of countries round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679 (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1905), by Thomas Bowrey and Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Fahrt des Athanasius Nikitin über die drei Meere; Reise eines russischen Kaufmannes nach Ostindien, 1466-1472, aus dem altrussischen übers., mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen und einer Kartenskizze Versehen (P. Schraepler, 1920), by Afanasiĭ Nikitich Nikitin and Karl H. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memoirs of India: comprising a brief grographical account of the East Indies; a succinct history of Hindostan, from the most early ages, to the end of the Marquis of Hastings ́administration in 1823. Designed for young men going out to India. (Longman, 1824), by Robert Grenville Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reisebilder und Skizzen aus Indien und dem letzten indischen Kriege 1857-1859 (Hermann Mendelssohn, 1861), by Axel Lind af Hageby (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reise in Ostindien, in Briefen an Alexander von Humboldt und Carl Ritter (G. Mayer, 1845), by Leopold von Orlich (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoire des voyages, que les Danois ont fait dans les Indes orientales, depuis l'an 1705 jusqu'à la fin de l'année 1736. (chez Henri-Albert Gosse & Comp., 1747), by Johann Lucas Niekamp (page images at HathiTrust)
- A narrative of the extraordinary adventures, and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell, comprising the occurrences of four years and five days, in an overland journey to India. Faithfully abstracted from Capt. Campbell's "Letters to his son." (Vernon and Hood, 1796), by Donald Campbell and Stephen Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
- A new account of the East Indies : giving an exact and copious description of the situation, product, manufactures, laws, customs, religion, trade, &c. of all the countries and islands, which lie between the Cape of Good Hope and the island of Japon; interspersed with an entertaining relation not only of the principal events, which happened during the author's thirty years residence in those parts; but also of the most remarkable occurrences and revolutions in those vast dominions for this century past; comprehending also many curious and interesting particulars relating to our commerce with those countries, and the affairs of the East India Company; illustrated with maps and sculptures (Printed for C. Hitch; and A. Millar, 1744), by Alexander Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Des Pater Joseph Tieffenthaler's ... Historisch-geographische Beschreibung von Hindustan. Ferner des Herrn Anquetil dü Perron ... Historische und chronologische Abhandlungen von Indien, und dessen Beschreibung des Laufes der Ströhme Ganges und Gagra, mit einer sehr grossen Charte. Wie auch des Herrn Jacob Rennell ... General-Charte von Indien, und dessen Charten von dem Laufe des Strohmes Burramputer und von der einländischen Schiffahrt in Bengalen, sammt dahin gehörenden Abhandlungen. Endlich noch verschiedene andere Zusätze und viele Anmerkungen des Herausgebers. Aus den lateinischen, französischen und englischen grösstentheils ungedruckten Urschriften in Ordnung gebracht, und in deutscher Sprache an das Licht gestellt (Der Herausgeber, 1785), by Jean Bernoulli, James Rennell, M. Anquetil-Duperron, and Joseph Tieffenthaler (page images at HathiTrust)
- A journey from Bengal to England : through the northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea (Printed for R. Faulder, 1798), by George Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
- Observations made on a tour from Bengal to Persia, in the years 1786-7 : with a short account of the remains of the celebrated palace of Persepolis ... (Printed for T. Cadell ..., 1790), by William Francklin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jacobs de Bucquoy, Landmessers und Landchartenverfertigers in Diensten der ostindischen Compagnie, Sechzehenjährige Reise nach Indien : aus dem holländischen nach der zweyten Ausgabe übersetzt : nebst einem Auszuge aus Jacob Frankens unglücklichen Reise in den Jahren 1756-1760 : mit Kupfern. (Bey Christian Gottlob Hilscher, 1771), by Jakob de Bucquoi and Jacob Franken (page images at HathiTrust)
- A voyage to the East Indies; began in 1750 with observations continued till 1764; including accounts of the Mogul government in general, the viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, and independent States; particularily those of Angria, the Morattoes, and Tanjoreans. Of the religions in India, and general reflections on the trade of India. Of the European settlements. The rise of the war in India, to the conclusion of the general peace of Europe in 1763. (Printed for the author; and sold by S. Hooper, 1766), by John Henry Grose and Francis Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
- Excursions in India : including a walk over the Himalaya Mountains, to the sources of the Jumna and the Ganges (R. Bentley, 1833), by Thomas Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
- [Arrianou Indikē (romanized form)] = Arriani Historia Indica : cum Bonav. Vulcanii interpretatione Latina permultis locis emendatiore (Sumtibus Jo. Jac. Gebaueri, 1798), by Arrian, William Vincent, Henry Dodwell, Friedrich Gotthelf Benjamin Schmieder, and Bonaventura Vulcanius (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages de François Bernier, docteur en medecine de la Faculté de Montpellier : contenant la description des Etats du grand Mogul, de l'Hindoustan, du Royaume de Kachemire, &c., où il est traité des richesses, des forces, de la justice, & des causes principales de la decadence des Etats de l'Asie, & de plusieurs èvenemens considerables; et où l'on voit comment l'or & l'argent, après avoir circulé dans le monde passent dans l'Hindoustan, d'où ils ne reviennent plus; le tout enrichi de cartes & de figures. (P. Marret, 1711), by François Bernier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Histoire generale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiée jusqu' à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues ... (Chez Didot, 1748), by abbé Prévost (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arriani Nicomedensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem ; et Historia Indica : Graec. et Lat. cum annotationibus et indice Graeco locupletissimo Georgii Raphelii : accedunt eclogae Photii ad Arrianum pertinentes cum lectionibus variantibus Dav. Hoeschelii, summaria librorum distincta & emendata, index rerum accuratissimus, nec non tabula geographica expeditionis Alexandri. (Apud Wetstenium, 1757), by Arrian, Saint Photius I, David Hoeschel, and Georg Raphel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arriani Anabasis (In aedibus B.G. Teubner, 1899), by Arrian and Karl Ernst Abicht (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Promptuario das diffiniçoens Indicas deduzidas de varios chronistas da India, graves authores & das historias gentilicas ... (A. Pedrozo Galram, 1713), by Leonardo Paes (page images at HathiTrust)
- Araïsh-i muḥfil ([Tho. Hubbard], 1808), by Sher ʻAlī Jaʻfarī Afsos and Sujāna Rāʻe Bhandārī (page images at HathiTrust)
- Megasthenis Indica (Sumptibus Pleimesii, bibliopolae, 1846), by Megasthenes and E. A. Schwanbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
- Travels in north India : containing notices of the Hindus ; journals of a voyage on the Ganges and a tour to Lahor ; notes on the Himalaya mountains and the hill tribes, including a sketch of missionary undertakings (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1842), by John C. Lowrie (page images at HathiTrust)
- A voice from the East to the young : in a series of letters to the children of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of North America (Board of Publication of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, 1859), by John Scudder and Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Forty years in the world; or, Sketches and tales of a soldier's life (Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825), by Robert Grenville Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyage aux Indes Orientales (La Veuve Panckouke, 1758), by John Henry Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 Travels of Van Linschoten (The "Englishman" Press, 1864), by Jan Huygen van Linschoten, Samuel Purchas, and James Talboys Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
- Genuine memoirs of Asiaticus. (Published under the auspices of the Calcutta Historical Society, 1909), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Walter K. Firminger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cuadro geografico, histórico, administrativo y político de la India en 1858 (Imprenta y Estereotipia de M. Rivandeneyra, 1858), by Luis de Estrada (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arrianou Nikomedeos Anabaseos Alexandrou Biblia epta kai Indike. Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica. (Excudit Petrvs Vander. AA, Bibliop., 1704), by Arrian, Jacobus Gronovius, and Bonaventura Vulcanius (page images at HathiTrust)
- Arrianoy Nikomedeos Anabaseos Alexandroy Biblia epta kai Indike. Arriani Nicomediensis Expeditionis Alexandri libri septem et Historia Indica. (Excudit Petrvs Vander. AA, Bibliop, 1704), by Arrian, Jacobus Gronovius, and Bonaventura Vulcanius (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reiss-Beschreibung in unterschiedliche Theile der Welt (In Verlegung Johann-Herman Widerholds, 1674), by Pietro Della Valle, Johann Herman Widerhold, Jean Louis Durant, Johann Jakob Thurneysen, and Thomas Blanchet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Naukeurige Beschryving van het Rijk des Grooten Mogols, en een groot gedeelte van Indien (By Jakob van Meurs ..., 1672), by Olfert Dapper and Jacob van Meurs (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages et observations dv Sievr de La Bovllaye-Le-Govz, gentil-homme angevin (Chez Geruais Clousier au Palais, sur les degrez de la Saincte Chapelle, 1653), by François Le Gouz de La Boullaye and Gervais Clousier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Khozhenïe za tri mori︠a︡ Aḟanasii︠a︡ Nikitina : v 1466-1472 gg. ; chtenïi︠a︡ I. I. Sreznevskago. (v tip. Imp. Akad. Nauk,, 1857), by Afanasiĭ Nikitich Nikitin and I. I. Sreznevskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
- The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living : through Turky into Persia and the East-Indies, finished in the year 1670 : giving an account of the state of those countries : illustrated with divers sculptures : together with a new relation of the present Grand Seignor's seraglio, by the same author (Printed for R[orbert] L[ittlebury] and M[oses] P[itt] and are to be sold by John Starkey ... and Moses Pitt ..., 1678), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, John Starkey, Moses Pitt, Robert Littlebury, and John Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
- China illustrata (By Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668), by Athanasius Kircher and J. H. Glazemaker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages de la Perse dans l'Inde et du Bengal en Perse, le premier traduit du persan, le second de l'anglais ; avec une notice sur les révolutions de la Perse, un mémoire historique sur Persépolis, et des notes / Tome premier, tome second. (De l'Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1798), by William Francklin, Abdoul-Rizaq, and L. Langlès (page images at HathiTrust)
- The travels of Pietro della Valle in India. (Burt Franklin, 1973), by Pietro Della Valle, Edward Grey, and G. Havers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Relations des Indes et de la Chine (A Paris : Chez Jean-Baptiste Coignard, imprimeur ordinaire du roy, ruë S. Jacques, à la Bible d'or, MDCCXVIII [1718], 1718), by Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī, Jean Baptiste Coignard, Eusèbe Renaudot, and active 9th century Sulaymān al-Tājir (page images at HathiTrust)
- India in the fifteenth century : being a collection of narratives of voyages to India in the century preceding the Portuguese discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian sources, now first translated into English (B. Franklin, 1964), by Richard Henry Major, Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, Afansii Nikitich Nikitin, Poggio Bracciolini, and Kamāl al Din 'Abd. al-Razzāk ibn Is'hak (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Arrians Anabasis (Weidmann, 1849), by Arrian (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buddhist records of the western world (Routledge, 2000), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Il viaggio all'Indie orientali del padre f. Vincenzo Maria di s. Caterina da Siena. (Appresso Giacomo Zattoni, 1678), by Vincenzo Maria Murchio (page images at HathiTrust)
- A voyage to the East Indies, began in 1750, with observations continued till 1764 ; including authentic accounts of the Mogul government in general, the vice-royalities of the Deccan and Bengal, with their several subordinate governments ... and general reflections on the trade of India. (Printed for the author; and sold by S. Hooper, 1766), by John Henry Grose (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal du voyage des grandes Indes : contenant tout de qui s'y est fait & passé par l'escadre de Sa Majesté envoyée sous le commandement de mr. de La Haye, depuis son depart de la Rochelle au mois de mars 1670 (Chez Francois Boyer, 1697), by Symon Silvius and François Caron (page images at HathiTrust)
- Viaggi di Pietro della Valle, il pellegrino : con minuto ragguaglio di tutte le cose notabili osseruate in essi : discritti da lui medesimo in 54 lettere familiari ... : mandate in Napoli all'erudito ... Mario Schipano : diuisi in tre parti, cioè la Turchia, la Persia, e l'India. (Appresso Vitale Mascardi, 1650), by Pietro Della Valle and Mario Schipano (page images at HathiTrust)
- European travellers in India during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the evidence afforded by them with respect to Indian social institutions, & the nature & influence of Indian governments (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and company, limited, 1962), by Edward Farley Oaten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A new account of East-India and Persia in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681 ... (Printed by R.R. for Ri. Chiswell ..., 1698), by John Fryer (page images at HathiTrust)
- A visit to India, China, and Japan, in the year 1853. (New York : G.P. Putnam's sons, 1867., 1867), by Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyage du marchand arabe Sulaymân en Inde et en Chine rédigé en 851: Suivi de remarques par Abû Zayd Hasan (vers 916), traduit de l'arabe avec introduction, glossaire et index par Gabriel Ferrand (in French), by Abu Zayd Hasan ibn Yazid Sirafi and active 9th century Sulayman al-Tajir, trans. by Gabriel Ferrand, illust. by Andrée Karpelès (Gutenberg ebook)
- Mirabilia descripta: The wonders of the East, by Catalani Jordanus, contrib. by Henry Yule (Gutenberg ebook)
- The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythræan Sea: Being a Translation of the Periplus Maris Erythræi, by an Anonymous Writer, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos, from the Mouth of the Indus to the Head of the Persian Gulf, trans. by John Watson McCrindle (Gutenberg ebook)
- A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, trans. by Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa and Fernão de Magalhães (Gutenberg ebook)
- Six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Vol. 1. English. (London : printed for Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Pauls Church-yard, M.DC.LXXXIV. [1684]), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, John Phillips, Henry Oldenburg, and Edmund Everard (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Mr Thomas Coriat to his friends in England sendeth greeting from Agra the capitall city of the dominion of the great Mogoll in the Easterne India, the last of October, 1616. Thy trauels and thy glory to ennamell, with fame we mount thee on the lofty cammell; ... . (At London : Printed by I. B[eale], 1618), by Thomas Coryate and John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Viaggi. Part 3. English (London : Printed by J. Macock for Henry Herringman ..., 1665), by Pietro Della Valle, Thomas Roe, and G. Havers (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Histoire de la dernière révolution des Etats du Grand Mogol. English (London : Printed and sold by M. Pitt ... and S. Miller ... and J. Starkey ..., 1676), by François Bernier and Henry Oldenburg (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Asia. The first part being an accurate description of Persia, and the several provinces thereof : the vast empire of the Great Mogol, and other parts of India, and their several kingdoms and regions : with the denominations and descriptions of the cities, towns, and places of remark therein contain'd : the various customs, habits, religion, and languages of the inhabitants : their political governments, and way of commerce : also the plants and animals peculiar to each country / collected and translated from the most authentick authors and augmented with later observations ; illustrated with notes, and adorn'd with peculiar maps and proper sculptures by John Ogilby ... (London, : Printed by the author at his house in White-friers., M.DC.LXXIII [1673]), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relation d'un voyage fait au Levant. English (London : Printed by H. Clark, for H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough ..., 1687), by Jean de Thévenot and Archibald Lovell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
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