Author: Jean Baptiste Tavernier (baron d'Aubonne)Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
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The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia and the East Indies, Finished in the Year 1670...Made English by J. P. To which is Added a Description of All the Kingdoms which Encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas
Author: Jean Baptiste Tavernier (baron d'Aubonne)Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
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The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670
Author: Jean-Baptiste TavernierPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484601375
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Excerpt from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670: Giving an Account of the State of Those Countries 1 ravels had he not ve rily believfd that there by he had eminently ferv'd his King and Country, would have adventurd a Dedication to fo great a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Nobleman of France Now Living, Through Turkey Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670
Author: Jean Baptiste TavernierPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 167
Author: Jean-Baptiste TavernierPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331557718
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Excerpt from The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670, Giving an Account of the State of Those Countries: Illustrated With Divers Sculptures; Together With a New Relation of the Present Grand Seignor's Seraglio, by the Same Author Gasman is a little City feated at the foot of a Hill upon which there hands a {trong Cattle and below two very commodious Inns. The River Gufielarmac, broad and deep waibes the Southsfide of the City, which you crofs, over one of the fairefi Bridges that ever was feen. It confilts of fifteen Arches, all of Free azane and is a Work that [hews the Grandeur of the Undertaker Somewhat at a diftancefrom the Bridge fland fix corn-mills all together, with little wooden Bridges to go from one to another. This River falls into the Euxz'n Sea, about eight daysiourney from Dumas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Six Voyages of John-Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turkey Into Persia, and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670 ... ; Together with A New Relation of the Present Grand Seignor's Seraglio, by the Same Author
Author: John-Baptista TavernierThe Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670
Author: Jean-Baptiste TavernierPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier
Author: Jean Baptiste]. [TavernierPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a Noble Man of France Now Living, Through Turky Into Persia and the East-Indies, Finished in the Year 1670
Author: Travels in India
Author: Jean-Baptiste TavernierPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-89) was one of the most renowned travelers of 17th century Europe. The son of a French Protestant who had fled Antwerp to escape religious persecution, Tavernier was a jewel merchant who between 1632 and 1668 made six voyages to the East. The countries he visited (most more than once) included present-day Cyprus, Malta, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In 1676 he published his two-volume Les six voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier (The six voyages of Jean Baptiste Tavernier). An abridged and very imperfect English translation of the book appeared in 1677. The first modern scholarly edition in English, presented here, was published in 1889, with translation, notes, and a biographical sketch of Tavernier by Dr. Valentine Ball (1843-95), a British civil servant with the Indian Geological Service. Among the most memorable chapters in the book are those that recount Tavernier's visits to the diamond mines of India and his inspection of the jewels of the Great Mogul. Tavernier was not a scholar or an educated linguist, and after his initial popularity in the 17th century his authority waned, as historians and others questioned the accuracy of his observations. In the 20th century, however, Tavernier's reputation rose, as such important historians as Lucien Febvre and Fernand Braudel used the detailed information he recorded about the prices and qualities of goods and about business and commercial practices in their pioneering studies of economic and social history. The book contains several appendices by Ball about famous diamonds (including the historic Koh-i-Noor Diamond now belonging to the British royal family), diamond mines in India and Borneo, ruby mines in Burma, and sapphire washings in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A fold-out map shows Tavernier's voyages in India and the mines he visited.
SIX VOYAGES OF JOHN BAPTISTA TAVERNIER, A NOBLE MAN OF FRANCE NOW LIVING, THROUGH TURKY INTO... PERSIA, AND THE EAST-INDIES, FINISHED IN THE YEAR.
Author: JEAN-BAPTISTE. TAVERNIERPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033191699
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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