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The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East-Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis : Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan... To which is added, The coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the III
Chardin, Sir John (1643-1713)
1691
Published in English and French concurrently in 1686 as pt. 1 of the Travels, but no more parts were issued. "Le couronnement de Soleiman Troisième" had already appeared in Paris, 1671. A reissue o...
France painted to the life
Heylyn, Peter (1600-1662)
1657
The first edition of this piracy of Books 1-4 of Heylyn's 'Full relation' appeared in 1656 and preceded the first authorized edition, also published in that year. The piracy adds five chapters (nos. 1...
Madagascar, or, Robert Drury's journal, during fifteen years captivity on that island
Drury, Robert (1687-); Defoe, Daniel (1661?-1731)
1729
Includes [pp. 457-464] "A vocabulary of the Madagascar language". Indexed in: Often attributed to Daniel Defoe (e.g. by ESTC), and regarded as fiction; but it is more probably a genuine record of Dr...
Of the state of Europe. XIIII. bookes : Containing the historie, and relation of the many provinces hereof. Continued out of approved authours
Richardson, Gabriel (1642)
An. Dom. 1627
Last leaf of Book XI (d2) and of Book XIV (Y4) blank. The separate paginations of each book have the following misnumberings: Book I, p.16 misnumbered 19; Book III, p.36 misnumbered 37; Book VI, pag...