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Subject	Count
colonization	29
commerce	29
colonisation	4
discoveries in geography	4
voyages and travels	3

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
East Indies	37
America	19
Europe	10
Asia	8
AméRique	4
Antilles	4
Indes Orientales	4
Iran	4
West Indies	4
Indonesia	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Raynal Abbe (1713-1796)	29
Deleyre, Alexandre	10
Deleyre, Alexandre (1726-1797)	10
Raynal	10
Justamond, John Obadiah	5
Justamond, John Obadiah (1786)	5
Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982)	4
Peuchet, J (1758-1830)	4
Argonaut Press	2
Bruggemann, Otto, 1600-1640	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	2
From 1700	29
From 1800	4
From 1900	2

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	2
Up to 1799	29
Up to 1899	4
Up to 1999	2

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A new account of the East Indies (v. 1)

Hamilton, Alexander (1732); Foster, Sir William (1863-1951); Argonaut Press

1930

With reproductions of title-pages of original edition, Edinburgh, 1727. "This edition... is the eighth publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 975 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 9...

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A new account of the East Indies (v. 2)

Hamilton, Alexander (1732); Foster, Sir William (1863-1951); Argonaut Press

1930

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A voyage to the Levant : or, Travels in the principal parts of Asia Minor, the islands of Scio, Rhodes, Cyprus, &c : with an account of the most considerable cities of Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land

Bruyn, Cornelis de (1652-7)

1702

The first edition of the English translation. With engraved portrait of the author after Kneller. Pagination jumps at Cc1 from 97 to 100, Fff1 from 201 to 204, and at Fff2 from 205 to 208.

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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies : containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries...to which is added an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject

Bruyn, Cornelis de (1652-7)

1737

The work was originally written in Dutch, and translated into French. Frontispiece dated 1711.

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The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia : Begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia. And other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching near the present times; in VII. books. : Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies... in III. books

Olearius, Adam (1603-1671); Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von (1616-1644); Davies, John (1625-1693)

1669

Vol. 2 has special t.-p: The voyages and travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo... into the East-Indies. "He [Frederick] employ'd in this embassy Philip Crusius... and Otton Brugman." cf. p. 1. From th...

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