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1. Ludouici patritii Romani nouum itinerarium Aethiopiae, Aegipti, utriusque Arabiae, Persidis, Siriae, ac Indiae, intra et extra Gangem.

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Creator:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Date:
[1511]
Physical Description:
[8], LXII leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Primo volume, & terza editione delle nauigationi et viaggi / raccolto gia da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, & con molti & vaghi discorsi, da lui in molti luoghi dichiarato & illustrato ; nel quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal Mar Rosso insino à Calicut, & all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo ; con la relatione dell'isola Giapan, scoperta nella parte del settentrione ; et alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia, estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros Portoghese ; con tre tavole di geographia in disegno, che hanno le marine, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra, secondo gli scrittori che hanno descritto li detti viaggi ; con due indici ...

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Creator:
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485–1557
Date:
l'anno MDLXIII [1563]
Physical Description:
[4], 34, 162, 162-394 leaves, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The first booke of the Historie of the discouerie and conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales, in their daungerous nauigations, in the time of King Don Iohn, the second of that name. : VVhich historie conteineth much varietie of matter, very profitable for all nauigators, and not vnpleasaunt to the Readers. / Set foorth in the Portingale language, by Hernan Lopes de Castaneda. And now translated into English by N.L. Gentleman.

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Creator:
Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de, -1559
Date:
1582
Physical Description:
[6], 164 leaves ; 19 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. [India Orientalis].

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Date:
1597[-1628]
Physical Description:
13 parts : ill., maps, plans, ports. ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Pvrchas his Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the world and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present. : Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Flovd, the heathenish, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / By Samuel Purchas, ...

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Creator:
Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626
Date:
1626
Physical Description:
[44], 242, 241-636, 635-1047, [37] p. (the first four pages blank), [1] double leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 35 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Gulielmi Pisonis medici Amstelædamensis De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim, quorum contenta pagina sequens exhibet.

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Creator:
Piso, Willem, 1611–1678
Date:
1658
Physical Description:
[24], 327, [5], 39, 226, [2] p. : ill. ; 37 cm. (fol.)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen : Waar inne der zelver grootste geheymenissen, zoo uyt de eygene geschriften, als t'zamenspraak, en bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines, en andere Indiaansche wet-geleerden, getrouwelijk werden aan't licht gebracht, zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche spraak-konst; zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien landaard om te gaan ... / Door Philippus Baldaeus ...

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Creator:
Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632–1672
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 : ill., maps, plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Creator:
Forbes, James, 1749–1819
Physical Description:
13 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 54 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Interesting historical events, relative to the provinces of Bengal, and the empire of Indostan : with a seasonable hint and perswasive to the honourable the court of directors of the East India Company : as also the mythology and cosmogony, fasts and festivals of the Gentoo's, followers of the Shastah : and a dissertation on the metempsychosis, commonly, though erroneously, called the Pythagorean doctrine / by J.Z. Holwell, esq.

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Creator:
Holwell, J. Z. (John Zephaniah), 1711–1798
Date:
1766-1771
Physical Description:
3 pt. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A comparative view of the antient monuments of India : particularly those in the island of Salset near Bombay, as described by different writers : illustrated with prints.

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Creator:
Gough, Richard, 1735–1809
Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Physical Description:
xvi, 85, [3] p., X leaves of plates (two folded) : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. James Wales archive, 1786-1797.

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Creator:
Wales, James, 1746 or 1747–1795
Date:
1786-1797
Physical Description:
1 linear foot (1 box, 2 volumes)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. A map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire : from the latest authorities ... / by J. Rennell.

A map of Hindoostan or the Mogul Empire : from the latest authorities ... / by J. Rennell.
Creator:
Rennell, James, 1742–1830
Date:
1788
Physical Description:
1 map : hand col., mounted on linen ; 105 x 124 cm., folded to 27 x 21 cm., in case 27 x 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.

Choix de vues de l'Inde : dessinées sur les lieux, pendant les années 1780, 1781, 1782, et 1783 / et exécutées en aqua tinta, par W. Hodges ... = Select views in India, drawn on the spot, in the years 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1783, and executed in aqua tinta by William Hodges, R.A.
Creator:
Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:
[1788]
Physical Description:
[44] leaves, [49] leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 60 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Cynegetica, or, Essays on sporting : consisting of observations on hare hunting : containing, an account of the hare hunting and coursing of the ancients, from Xenophon and Arrian : a philosophical enquiry into the nature and properties of the scent : remarks on the different kinds of hounds, with the manner of training them : directions for the choice of a hunter : the qualifications requisite for a huntsman : and other general rule to be observed in every contingency incident to the chase : together with an account of the vizier's manner of hunting in the Mogul empire by William Blane, Esq. : to which is added The chace, a poem by William Somervile, Esq.

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Date:
1788
Physical Description:
[8], 292, [4] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

15. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782, & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A.

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Creator:
Hodges, William, 1744–1797
Date:
1793
Physical Description:
vi, 156, [2] p., [14] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill. map ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts