From a Portuguese atlas, 1630

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From Cornelis de Bruyn's book of travel pictures "Reizen Door Klien Asia," 1698

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*'Kochin, of Kouchin, een oude en beroemde Stadt in het lantschap. Malabar in Indie, onder het gebiet der Nederlanders'; by Peter Schenk, 1702* (BL)

Some Nayers of Cochin, from "Voyages Celebres et Remarquables faits de Perse etc.," by Jean Albert de Mandelslo, 1727

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"Plan of the City of Cochin," from 'The Universal Traveller', by Thomas Salmon, London, 1729

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"The King of Cochin riding on an Elephant, attended by his Nayro's," from Thomas Astley, 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels', London, 1745

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*"Plan of the City of Cochin," from Thomas Astley, 'A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels', London, 1745*

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*Bellin's plan of Cochin, from Prevost, c.1750's*

"The King of Cochin on his Elephant, accompanied by his Nairs," from *PREVOST*, c.1760; with modern hand color; *a larger, uncolored scan*

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*View of the fort of Cochin , from across the backwater, with the union flag flying from the warehouse, formerly the Portuguese cathedral of Santa Cruz; watercolor, c.1800* (BL)

*Cochin, on the coast of Malabar; by James Forbes, 1813* (BL)

Cochin in its setting, from "Lowry's Table Atlas" by J.W. Lowry (Chapman & Hall, London, 1850)

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*"Jewish women of Cochin," from 'The Earth and its Inhabitants: Asia (India and Indochina)', by Elisee Reclus (D. Appleton and Company, 1884)*

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*"A Hindu temple in Cochin," a photogravure by Martin Hurlimann, 1928*; also: *"Fishing nets, Cochin"*; also: *"A village home on the Malabar Coast"*

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The old European graveyard

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