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• India -- Historical geography
• India -- History -- Early works to 1800
• India -- Early works to 1800
• Historical geography -- Early works to 1800

• Buddhist records of the western world (Routledge, 2000), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679 (Hakluyt Society works, second series, #12; 1905), by Thomas Bowrey, ed. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (2 volumes; London, Truübner and Co., 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World (popular edition, 2 volumes in 1; London: K. Paul, Trench, Truübner and Co., ca. 1884), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, trans. by Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• A note on the ancient geography of Asia. (Buddhist text society of India, 1896), by Nobin Chandra Das (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient geography of India. (Trübner and co., 1871), by Alexander Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kenntniss Indiens im fünfzehnten jahrhunderte. (Druck von J. G. Weiss, in commission der Kaiser'schen buchhandlung, 1863), by Friedrich Kunstmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches on Ptolemy's geography of eastern Asia (further India and Indo-Malay archipelago). (Royal Asiatic Society, Royal geographical Society, 1909), by G. E. Gerini and Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian antiquities: or, Dissertations relative to the ancient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, the widely-extended commerce, and the various profound literature, of Hindostan: compared, throughout, with the religion, laws, government, and literature, of Persia, Egypt, and Greece ... (Printed for the author, by H.L. Galabin, and sold by John White, 1800), by Thomas Maurice, Luke Hansard, C. & W. Galabin, Henry Louis Galabin, W. Richardson, R. Faulder, and John White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire analytique sur la carte de l'Asie centrale et de l'Inde, construite d'après le Si-yu-ki (Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales) et les autres relations chinoises des premiers siècles de notre ère, pour les voyages de Hiouen-Thsang dans l'Inde, depuis l'année 629 jusqu'en 645 (Imprimerie impériale, 1858), by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daitō Seikiki. (1911), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Bianji (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Si-yu-ki. Buddhist records of the Western World. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906), by ca. 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient India as described by Megasthenês and Arrian (Thacker, Spink, 1877), by Megasthenes, John Watson McCrindle, E. A. Schwanbeck, and Arrian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments arabes et persans inédits relatifs à l'Inde, antérieurement au XIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne (Imprimerie royale, 1845), by Joseph Toussaint Reinaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the cape of Good Hope. With an appendix, containing observations on the civil policy, the laws and judicial proceedings, the arts, the sciences, and religious institutions, of the Indians. (A. Strahan, and T. Cadell; [etc., etc.], 1791), by William Robertson and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical disquisition concerning the knowledge which the ancients had of India; and the progress of trade with that country prior to the discovery of the passage to it by the Cape of Good Hope. (Printed and sold by J.J. Torneisen, 1792), by William Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires sur les contrées occidentales (L'Imprimerie impériale, 1857), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Stanislas Julien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian antiquities : or, Dissertations, relative to the ancient geographic divisions, the pure system of primeval theology ... of Hindostan: compared, throughout, with the religion, laws, government, and literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the whole intended as introductory to the history of Hindostan upon a comprehensive scale. (T. Maurice, 1806), by Thomas Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient India as described in classical literature; being a collection of Greek and Latin texts relating to India, extracted from Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Pliny, Aelian, Philostratus, Dion Chrysostom, Porphyry, Stobaeus, the Itinerary of Alexander the Great, the Periêgêsis of Dionysius, the Dionysiaka of Nonnus, the Romance history of Alexander and other works (A. Constable and co., ltd., 1901), by John Watson M'Crindle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Geography of Hindustan, ancient and modern : illustrated by eight lithographic maps : with brief notices of the principal political events which have occured from the earliest times : designed for the use of schools. (American Ceylon Mission, 1843), by American Ceylon Mission (page images at HathiTrust)
• La cartografia antica dell'India. (G. Carnesecchi, 1901), by Francesco Lorenzo Pullè (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Megasthenis Indica (Sumptibus Pleimesii, bibliopolae, 1846), by Megasthenes and E. A. Schwanbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A geographical account of countries round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 -1679. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1905), by Thomas Bowrey and Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Si-yu-ki : Buddhist records of the western world (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1884), by ca. 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uebersicht der Literaturgeschichte der Araber (Kaiserlich-Königlichen hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1851), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian antiquities : or dissertations relative to the ancient geographical divisions, the pure system of primeval theology, the grand code of civil laws, the original form of government, and the various and profound literature, of Hindostan : compared, throughout, with the religion, laws, government, and literature of Persia, Egypt, and Greece, the whole intended as introductory to The history of Hindostan, upon a comprehensive scale . (Printed for the author and sold by W. Richardson, 1794), by Thomas Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dai Tō Seiiki ki. (Dai Nihon Tosho, 1911), by ca. 596-664 Xuanzang (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Buddhist records of the Western World. (J.R. Osgood, 1885), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang, Faxian, Xuanzhi Yang, and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient India as described by Ptolemy (Thacker, Spink, & co.; [etc., etc.], 1885), by active 2nd century Ptolemy and John Watson McCrindle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A historical geography of the British colonies. Vol. 7, India (Clarendon Press, 1916), by P. E. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical atlas of India, for the use of high schools, colleges and private students. (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Charles Joppen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ueber die namen der Araber (Kaiserlich-Königlichen hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1852), by Joseph Hammer-Purgstall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical geography of India. (Clarendon Press, 1916), by P. E. Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Si-yu-ki. Buddhist records of the western world. (fold. map, 1914), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Si-yu-ki. Buddhist records of the Western World. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1906), by approximately 596-664 Xuanzang and Samuel Beal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Historical atlas of India, for the use of high schools, colleges, and private students (Longmans, Green, & Co., 1914), by Charles Joppen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Marco Polo's account of a Mongol inroad into Kashmir (Royal Geographical Society, 1919), by Aurel Stein (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indes orientales (Chez la veuve Pierres, Libraire, rue Saint Jacques, à S. Ambroise, 1744), by abbé Guyon and widow of Pierres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb fī taḥqīqi mā-lil-Hindi min maqūlah maqbūlah fī al- ʻaql aw mardhūlah (London, 1887), by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī and Eduard Sachau (page images at HathiTrust)

• A narrative of the transactions in Bengal, from the year 1760, to the year 1764, during the government of Mr. Henry Vansittart : published by himself : in three volumes. (London : Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; J. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; and J. Robson, in Bond-street, MDCCLXVI [1766], 1766), by Henry Vansittart, James Robson, James Dodsley, John Newbery, and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historia do descobrimento e conquista da India pelos Portugueses. Book 1. English (Imprinted at London : By Thomas East, 1582), by Fernão Lopes de Castanheda and Nicholas Lichefield (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history of Hindostan; : from the earliest account of time, to the death of Akbar; (Printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand, 1768), by Muhammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah and T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt (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)
• Araïsh-i muḥfil ([Tho. Hubbard], 1808), by Sher ʻAlī Jaʻfarī Afsos, Sujāna Rāʻe Bhandārī, and India) Hindoostanee Press (Kolkata (page images at HathiTrust)

• The history of Humāyūn (Humāyūn-nāma). (Printed and published under the patronage of the Royal Asiatic society, 1902), by begam Gulbaden and Annette Susannah Beveridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• [Toldot yehude Ḳutsin] (Columbia University Libraries, 1781), by Yiḥya ben Avraham ʹSaraf, Yeḥezḳel Reḥavi, Yosef Halllegua, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of a map of Hindoostan (London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. Nicol, ... and W. Richardson ..., MDCCXCII [1792]., 1792), by James Rennell, William Richardson, G. Nicol, and William Bulmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangeres. (Chez J. Merigot le jeune, libraire, quai des Augustins, au coin de la rue Pavée., 1780), by Jean-Gabriel Mérigot, Nicolas Maréchal, Louis Patouillet, J.-B. Du Halde, Charles Le Gobien, and Yves Mathurin Marie Tréaudet de Querbeuf (page images at HathiTrust)

• A faithful narrative of the capture of the ship Derby : (belonging to the honourable the East India Company, Abraham Anselm commander) by Angria the pirate, on the coast of Mallabar, December 26. 1735 ; with several affidavits, letters, &c. relating to the captain's conduct, before, in, and after the engagement ; also, a particular account of the force of Angria, both by land and sea ... the whole extracted from memoirs under Captain Anselm's own hand, and other papers. (printed and sold by S. Osborn, 1738), by Abraham Anselm (page images at HathiTrust)

• A description of the port and island of Bombay : and an historical account of the transactions between the English and Portugueze concerning it, from the year 1661, to this present time. ([publisher not identified], 1724) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Observations mathématiques, astronomiques, geographiques, chronologiques et physiques : tirées des anciens livres chinois ou faites nouvellement aux Indes et a la Chine (Chez Rollin libraire ..., 1729), by Antoine Gaubil, E. Souciet, and Jesuits (page images at HathiTrust)

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