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SELECTIONS FROM
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, &c.
by
V. BALL, C.B.,
LL.D.,
F.R.S., F.G.S.
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SECOND EDITION
Edited by WILLIAM
CROOKE,
C.I.E.
Late of the Indian
Civil
Service
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Oxford University
Press
London: Humphrey
Milford,
1925
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*Introduction
by FWP (2006)*
*Introduction
by William Crooke (1925)*
*Life
of J.-B. Tavernier, by Valentine Ball (1889)*
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*Dedication:
to the King (1676)*
*Design
of the Author*
*THE
FIRST BOOK:*
Concerning
routes which one may take to go from Ispahan to Agra, and from Agra to
Delhi and Jahanabad, where the Court of the Great Mogul is at present;
as also to the Court of the King of Golconda and to that of the King of
Bijapur, and to several other places in India.
[THE SECOND
BOOK:
Historical
and Political
description of the Empire of the Great Mogul.]
[THE
THIRD BOOK:
Concerning
the religion
of the Musalmans and that of the Idolaters of India; the voyage of the
Author by sea from Surat to Batavia, and from Batavia to Holland; and
of
many peculiarities in different Kingdoms of the East (begins on p. 173).]
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*wikipedia
on Tavernier*
*a
page with two Tavernier illustrations*
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