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Volume 1
Introduction: Of the origination of mankind, the peopling of the world, and the migration of nations ; Of the peopling of America ; Of the antient shipping and navigation, and their succeeding improvements ; Of the discoveries, properties and use of the magnet.
Book I. A description of the circum-navigations of the globe. Of the improvement of navigation in latter times: the first application of magnetical and astronomical instruments thereto, and the discoveries made by the Portugueze ; Of Columbus & c ; The voyage of Ferdinandus Maglianes, the first compleat circum-navigator, and discoverer of the straits (from him called Magellanick) / taken out of Antony Pigafetta, an Italian of Vicenza, and one that assisted in this voyage ; The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake, the first general that ever sailed round the globe ; The prosperous voyage of Mr Tho. Candish (of Trimly in the country of Suffolk, Esq) and the second of the circum-navigators, which voyage was begun July 1, 1586 / written by Mr Francis Pretty, of Eye in Suffolk, his companion in the same voyage ; The voyage of Oliver Noort, & c ; Sebald de Wert's voyage into the South Sea & c ; The voyage of George Spilbergen, admiral of a Dutch fleet of six ships ; The sixth circum-navigation / by William Cornelison Schouten of Horne.
Book II: Navigations and voyages of English-men, along the coasts of Africa, to the Cape of Good Hope, and from thence to the Red Sea, the Abassine, Arabian, Persian, Indian shores, continents, and islands: Of the first English voyages to the East-Indies, before the establishment of the East-Indian Society : of Sighelmus, Mandevile, Stephens, Fitz, and other English-mens Indian voyages and journeys ; The unhappy voyage of Mr Benj. Wood into the East-Indies ; The travels of Mr John Mildenhall into the Indies, Persia, and the Mogul's country / written by himself, in two letters, the valuable remarks of which are here inserted ; The voyage of Captain John Davis to the East-Indies: pilot in a Dutch ship / written by himself ; An account of a voyage to the isle of Japan through the Magellanick Streights / by Mr William Adams ; The second voyage of John Davis with Sir Edward Michelbourn & c ; A priviledge for fifteen years granted by Her Majesty to certain adventurers, for the discovery of the trade for the East-Indies, the one and thirtieth of December, 1600 ; The first voyage to the East-Indies for the merchants of London / by Mr James Lancaster, Admiral ; A description of Java, and the first English factory there: with divers occurrences relating to the Indian, English, and Dutch affairs / written by Mr Edmund Scott, containing a history of those matters, from A.D.1602 to 1605 ; The dangers the English went through by means of the falsehood and treacheries of the Javans ; The second voyage set forth by the Company, with four ships, the Red Dragon admiral, the Hector vice-admiral, the Ascension and the Susan, under the command of Sir Henry Middleton, Admiral / taken out of Mr Claybourn's large journal ;The third voyage set forth by the East-India Company, with three ships, the Dragon, Hector, and the Content, Capt. William Keeling chief commander / taken out of his, and Mr Finch (merchant) his journal ; A relation of Mr Finch, merchant, concerning his trade and travels in the Mogul's country, with an account of the most remarkable roads and places of trade in that mighty empire ; A discourse of the affairs of India, and the proceedings at the court of the Great Mogul / written by Capt. William Hawkins, and directed to the East-India Company ; The voyage of the Content, a ship of the last fleet commanded by General Keeling / performed by Captain David Middleton, brother to Sir Henry ; An account of the fourth general voyage to the East-Indies with the two ships, the Ascension, and the Union, under the command of Capt. Alex. Sharpey: together with the discoveries in the Red Sea by the Ascension / writ by Mr Tho. Jones ; The circumstances of the unhappy voyage of the other ship the Union, in her way to Priaman / written by Henry Morris, at Bantam, Sept. 14. A.D. 1610 ; Mr Salbank's journey (after Ascension was cast away) through India, Persia, and part of Turkey and Arabia, A.D. 1609 / written to &c. ; The voyage of Mr David Middleton to Java and Banda / taken out of a letter written by himself to the Company, this being the fifth voyage set out by them ; The sixth general voyage set forth by the East-India Company with the three good ships, the Trade's Increase, admiral, of 1000 tun, the Pepper-Corn, vice-admiral, of 250 tun, the Darling of 90, and a victualling-bark of 180 / extracted out of the letters and journals of Sir Henry Middleton, admiral, and Mr Nich. Dounton, captain of the Pepper-Corn ; The seventh voyage set forth by the East-India Company with the Globe under the command of Capt. Anthony Hippon / extracted out of the journals of Nath. Marten, master-mate, and Peter Williamson Floris, Cape merchant. ; An account of a voyage to the East-Indies in the Pearl, commanded by Captain Samuel Castleton / written by Mr John Tatton, master of the same ship ; The eighth voyage set forth by the East-India Company, with three ships, the Clove, the Hector, and the Thomas, under the command of Capt. John Saris : his course to, and actions in the Red Sea, Java, Molucca's, and the isle of Japan, where first began and settled an English trade / taken out of his own journal ; Observations made by Capt. John Saris, relating to the universal trade of the East-Indies, the most remarkable places, the commodities they afford, or are chiefly in request in every one of them, with the rates, prices, customs and impost everywhere observable ; An account of some remarkable occurrences and divers things relating to the state of the English trade in Japan / taken out of the letters of two English-men, a long resident there, Mr Cocks and Mr Sayers ; The tenth voyage by the East-India Company with the two good ships, the Dragon and Hosiander (accompanied with the James and Solomon, for other voyages), taken out of the journals of captain, master and others employ'd in the same voyage / Tho. Best chief commander herein ; The twelfth voyage set out by the East-India Company with the good ship the Expedition, under the command of Capt. Christopher Newport / written by Mr Walter Payton ; An account of the second voyage set forth by the united stocks of the East-India Company / taken out of the journals of Captain Nicholas Downton, chief commander herein, and Capt. Thomas Elkington, his successour in that post ; Containing some accounts of a journey from India into Persia made by two English-men, belonging to Capt. Dounton's company ; The second voyage into the East-Indies perform'd by Captain Peyton, with the Expedition: together with the Dragon, Lion, and Pepper-Corn, under the command of Captain Keeling / taken out of Captain Peyton's large journal and the observations of some others ; Some further account of the proceedings of the factory at Crangalor in the King of Calecut's country / taken out of the memorials of Mr Roger Haves, resident at that place ; Some observations of Capt. Peyton's concerning the English and Portugueze trade, factories, and acquisitions in the East-Indies ; An account of Sir Tho. Roe's embassy to the court of the Great Mogul : taking in all the particulars of those transactions, with other things remarkable that happen'd during his abode there / collected from his own journal ; An account of the Mogul's country, and the most useful and remarkable things relating to it / extracted from Sir Thomas Row's, Mr Terry's (his chaplains) and the observations of some others who lived there ; The fifth voyage set out upon the joint-stock of the East-India Company with the following ships : the James Royal of 1000 tun, the Anne Royal of 900, the New-Years Gift of 800, the Bull of 400, the Bee of 150 / Martin Pring chief commander, taken out of his and some of the masters journals ; Containing the result of the voyage made to Moha, in the Red Sea by the Anne Royal, a ship belonging to Admiral Pring's fleet under the command of Capt. Andrew Shilling / extracted out of Mr Hoynes's journal ; An account of all the proceedings between the English and the Dutch, with reference to the Banda affairs : together with the several grounds of the pretensions of both parties, and the controversies happening thereupon / taken out of the journals and letters written upon that subject by Mr Spurway, Mr Courthop, Mr Hayes, and some others ; An account of a voyage from Surat to Achen, Bantam, and other parts of the East-Indies, with the Dragon and the Expedition / perform'd by W. Hore, and written by him in a letter to the East-India company ; A declaration put forth by the Dutch, containing the account they give of the differences between the English and themselves, and the grounds of their pretensions to, as well as their proceedings at the Islands of Banda. To which are added some brief animadversions upon it ; A voyage to Surat, in India, and Jasques, in the Gulph of Persia, set forth by the company, with four new ships; the London of 800 tun, the Hart of 500, the Roebuck of 300, the Eagle of 280. Captain Andrew Shilling, Chief Commander / taken out of the journal of Mr Rich. Swann, Master of the Roebuck ; A short account of the passages and ways of communication between Muscovy and Persia, with some other things relating to the trade of these countries / taken out of a letter derected to the East-India Company, from Mr Hobbs, one of their factors in Persia ; An account of some things historical and civil, relating to the great Empire of Japan / taken out of some later letters of Mr Richard Cock, English factor at Firando, and Mr Arthur Hatch Minister, who also lived in the country some time ; A voyage perform'd by Mr Ralph Fitch, merchant of London, to Ormus, and from thence through the whole East-Indies / written by himself ; The first voyage perform'd by the Dutch to the East-Indies, with four ships, the Maurice, the Holland, the Amsterdam, and a pinnace; Bernard Hejink, chief Commander ; An account of the second voyage made by the Dutch to the East-Indies, with eight ships, the Holland, the Zeland, the Friesland, the Guelderland, the Utrecht, the Overyssel, the Maurice, the Amsterdam: containing in all 560 men. James Neccius Admiral, and Wibrand Warwick Vice-Admiral ; An account of the farther progress of the Dutch East-Indian trade, in several attempts made by them for that purpose ; An account of the rest of the Dutch voyages, down to the time of their first pretensions to sovereignty and property, at the Banda Islands ; A collection of rules and directions for the East-India navigations / taken out of the observations of some of our English sailors of great experience; particularly Mr John Davis, of Lime-House, who made five of those voyages himself ; Memoirs of Admiral Beaulieu's voyage to the East-Indies / drawn up by himself ; The voyage of Francis Pirard de La Val to the East-Indies, and his remarks upon that country ; Brief collections of voyages, chiefly of Spaniards and Portuguese / taken out of Anthony Galvano's book of the discoveries of the world. Published by Purchas ; An abstract of Mr Caesar Frederick's Indian observations for eighteen years ; Gasparo Balbi his voyage to Pegu, and observations there / gather'd out of his Italian relation ; Linschotten's voyage to Goa, and observations on the East-Indies, abridg'd.
Book III. A description of Africa, and all its provinces / taken from John Leo and Marmol ; Containing a general description of the limits, soil, product and climate of the country: together with the original, tribes, customs, language, religion, constitution, virtues and vices of the respective inhabitants ; Containing a description of the rivers of Africa / taken from Marmol ; Containing a particular account of the kingdom of Morocco / from John Leo ; Additions / collected out of Marmol ; Containing John Leo's description of the kingdom of Fez ; Containing John Leo's description of the kingdom of Tremefen ; Additions / taken from Marmol ; Containing John Leo's description of the kingdoms of Bugia and Tunis ; Additions / taken from Marmol ; Containing John Leo's description of Numidia and Libya ; Additions / collected from Marmol ; Containing a description of Negroland / from John Leo ; Additions / containing Marmol's account of Lower Aethiopia or Negroland ; Containing John Leo's description of Egypt ; Additions / collected from Marmol ; Containing John Leo's account of the remarkable animals, minerals, and plants in Africa ; Additions / collected from Marmol ; The rise and progress of the Xeriffian family in Barbary; with sime remarks upon the policy and trade of that kingdom / collected from the writings of Ro. C. ; An account of the places in Africa, possess'd by the King of Spain and the Great Turk ; The description of Algier, with the history of its falling into the hands of Barbarossa; and a short account of Malta and Tripoli / taken from Nicolas Nicolay ; An account of the most remarkable occurrences in the voyage of the English fleet, sent against the Algerines and others, under the command of Sir Robert Mansel, Knight ; A relation of the taking and recovering the Jacob of Bristow, and some other adventurers of English ships ; The particulars of the recovery of the Exchange of Bristow / published by John Rawlins ; A collection of what relates to Africa / in Mr George Sandys his history of the present state of the Turkish Empire ; An abstract of Mr Richard Jobson's voyage for the discovery of Gambra, and the golden trade of the Ethiopians ; An account of a voyage made to Cape Verd and the coast of Guinea / by James Lange: done from the Low-Dutch ; An abstract of the history of Ethiopia, or the Kingdom of Abessines / written by Mr Job Ludolphus, with what is observable from the authors of that country in Purchas ; Sir Thomas Herbert Baronet, his travels, begun in 1626, into divers parts of Africa and Asia Major, in which the two famous monarchies of the Mogul and Persian are principally describ'd, with what is remarkable in those places from other authors in Purchass, & c ; Sir Thomas Herbert's travels from England to Goa in the East-Indies ; Sir Tho. Herbert's travels in India, containing a description of the people, cities, government and product of it; with an account of the Great Moguls, their Kings, and several changes in the succession to the crown ; Sir Tho. Herbert's travels into Persia, in which he gives an account of the people, cities, towns, and products of it ; A compleat succession of the Persian Kings, from Nimrod to Abbas now reigning ; Some miscellaneous observations relating to the persons, customs, and manners of the Persians ; Sir Tho. Herbert's travels into other parts of India, with his observations of things most remarkable in them ; Sir Tho. Herbert's return home from China into England, and the things remarkable in his way.
Book IV. Containing voyages, trafficks, and discoveries to Russia and the northern parts ; The journal of William Rubruquish, a French-man, of the order of the Minorite friers, into Tartary and China; written to Lewis IX King of France, 1253 ; Sir Hugh Willoughby's unfortunate voyage to discover and settle a trade in Russia, 1553 ; The several voyages of Mr Anthony Jenkinson, the first whereof was in the Primrose, with the ambassador Osep Napea, in the year 1557 ; Mr Anthony Jenkinson's second voyage from London to Mosco, and thence over the Caspian-Sea into Persia, Anno 1561 ; The second voyage into Persia, made by Tho. Alcock, George Wren, and Richard Chenie, servants to the Russian Company, in the year 1563 ; The fourth voyage into Persia, in the year 1598, by Mr Arthur Edwards, agent, Lawrence Chapman, and other servants to the Russian Company ; The fourth voyage of Mr Anthony Jenkinson, Embassador from the Queen's most excellent Majesty, to the Emperour of Russia, Anno 1571 ; The voyage of Arthur Pett and Charles Jackman, in two barks, the George and the William, set forth by the Russian Company, for the discovery of the north-east parts of the world, anno 1580 / written by Hugh Smith ; The voyage of Sir Jerom Bowes Knight, her Majesties Embassador to Jan Vasilvich, Emperour of Russia, an. 1583 ; A short narrative of the tragical revolutions in Russia, after the death of Juan Vasilowich ; An account of the English affairs in Russia, after the death of Juan Vasilowich / written by Mr Jerom Horsey, then remaining in Russia, as servant to her Majesty, 1584 ; A treatise of Russia / by Doctor Giles Fletcher, Embassador from Queen Elizabeth to Theodore, Emperour of Russia, A.D. 1588 ; The first voyage of William Barets into the North Seas, 1594 / written by Garet de Veer ; The second voyage of William Barents into the North Seas, 1595 / written by Geret de Veer ; The third voyage of William Barents into the North-Seas. 1596 / written by Gerat de Veer ; They depart in a boat and scute both open (that is, without decks) and arrive at Cola, 318 Flemish miles. Their many dangers by the way ; The voyages and discoveries of Henry Hudson towards the North Pole, set forth at the charge of certain merchants of London ; The second voyage of Mr Henry Hudson for finding a passage to the East-Indies by the north-east / written by himself ; A journal of Mr Hudson's last voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage / written by Abacuk Pricket ; Forasmuch as this narrative of Pricket, who returned with that company which had so cruelly exposed Hudson, may be suspected by some as not friendly to Hudson, I have therefore added the report of Thomas Wydowse, one of the exposed company, who ascribes the occasions of those unhappy discords to Robert Ivet ; The ten several voyages of Captain Thomas Edge and others to Greenland (called by the Dutch Spitsbergen) at the charge of the worshipful Muscovia Company ; The first voyage of Martin Frobisher to the north-west, anno 1576 / written by Mr. Hall, master of the Gabriel ; The second voyage of Capt. Frobisher t the north-west, 1577 ; The third and last voyage of Captain Frobisher to the north-west, anno 1578 ; The first voyage of Mr. John Davis for discovery of the north-west passage, an. 1585 / written by John Janes ; The second voyage attempted by Mr. John Davis for discovery of a north-west passage, anno 1586 / written by himself ; The voyage of Sir Humphry Gilbert in the country of Devon, Knight, for discovery of countries to the northwards of the Cape of Florida, anno 1583 / written by Edward haies, Capt. of the Hind ; An extract of divers voyages attempted by English navigators, at the charge of the Muscovia Company, for discoveries towards the North Pole ; The voyage of Mr George Weymouth ; The voyage of Mr John Knight ; The voyages of Mr Jonas Pool ; A voyage to Greenland, with six ships and a pinnace, set forth by the Muscovia Company, under the command of Benjamin Joseph and Thomas Edge, anno Dom 1613 / written by Mr William Baffin ; Extract of two voyages for discovery of seas, lands and islands, to the northwards; set forth at the charge of the Muscovia Company. Anno Dom 1614, 1615 / written by Robert Fotherby ; The strange and dangerous voyage of Captain Thomas James, in his intended discovery of a north-west passage into the South Sea, 1631 ; An account of a voyage made towards the south Terra-incognita; taken from the journal of Captain Abel Johnson Tasman, who not only discovered a new passage by sea to the south of Nova Hollandria, Vandiemen's Land, & c, and sailed round a vast tract of land and sea, but also made very useful observations concerning the variation of the magnetical needle in parts of the world, almost Antipodas to us, with several other curious remarks concerning those places and its inhabitants / published in Low-Dutch by Dirk Rembrantse, and since done in English from Dr. Hook's collections ; An account of a voyage for the discovery of the N.E. passage to China and Japan, in his Majesties ships, the Speedwel and Prosperous Pink, in the year 1676, where is shewed the probability of that passage, before the attempt, with divers useful observations made in that voyage, by Captain John Wood ; A journal aboard the Prosperous, Captain William Flawes Commander, from Nova Zembla to England, 1676 ; A brief discourse of a passage by the north-pole to Japan, China, & c, pleaded by three experiments. And answers to all objections that can be urged against a passage that way / by Joseph Moxon, Fellow of the Royal Society ; The first part of the voyage to Spitzbergen and Greenland, containing an account of the voyage thither, and of the weather; from April the 15th, to August the 21st, 1671 ; A voyage to Spitzbergen; Part II. Containing a description of Spitzbergen ; A voyage to Spitzbergen; Part III, Plants ; A voyage to Spitzbergen, Part IV, Animals ; A supplement to Captain Wood's and Marten's north-east voyage, containing their navigations and observations to the north-west of Greenland, and other northern regions.
Book V. English voyages to the east, west, and south parts of America, with their land and sea-fights and victories over the Spaniards ; also the many strange and dangerous adventures of Englishmen amongst the Americans ; An account of the several voyages undertaken and perform'd by the Right Honourable George Earl of Cumberland, in person, and at his own charge, or by his direction. Collected out of the journals and relations of several credible persons, who bore a part in those expeditions ; The relation of the adventures of Peter Carder, his dangers at sea, and difficulties at land upon the continent of America, as well amongst the savages as Spaniards ; The last and most disastrous voyage of that famous navigator Mr. Tho. Candish, extracted out of his own letter directed to Sir Tristram Gorges his executor ; The strange adventures of Anthony Knivet, (who went out with Admiral Candish in his last expedition) amongst the Portuguese and Indians; together with his travels thro' those parts, and the account of the people, their customs, and the products of their countries ; Some observations of the Island of Trinidado, the rich country of Guiana, and the great river Oronoco, with other rivers / made by Francis Sparrey, who was left in the country by Sir Walter Raleigh A.D. 1595, and after that being taken prisoner by the Spaniards, and living a slave in Spain, return'd into England again A.D. 1602 ; An account of a voyage to Guiana by Captain Charles Leigh, perform'd at the charges of Sir Olave Leigh his brother, and his own / taken out of the Captains journal and letters, and the journals of several others that went the same voyage ; An account of a voyage to Guiana, perform'd by Robert Harcourt Esq, of Stanton-Harcourt in the County of Oxon / written by Prince Charles ; A brief account of the country and people about the river of the Amazons / by William Davis barber-chyrurgeon of London, who liv'd there sometime ; A compleat account of the great country of Brasile, with the manners and customs of the inhabitants / from a Portuguese and a Frenchman, who liv'd there a great while. An account of Sir Richard Hawkins's voyage into the South Sea; collected from his own observations and those of some curious persons that went along with him ; An account of the taking of St Vincent, and Puerto Bello, in the West-Indies / by Captain William Parker of Plimouth ; Some notes relating to the general history of that part of the West-Indies under the dominion of the Spaniards / collected from the broken observations of Alexandro Ursino, a Roman, who lived in Peru and Chili 34 years; of Pedro Ordonnes de Cevallos, a Spanish priest; of Lopez Vez, a Portuguese, taken by Captain Withrington at the River of Plate, with his American notes about him ; The natural history of the Spanish Indies in general ; The civil and moral history of the Spanish West-Indies ; An account of the voyage to Florida, made by the fleet under the command of Pamphilo Narvaez / written by Alvaro Nunnez, an officer in the same ; A voyage to Florida by Fernando de Soto, with his discovery of the countries in that part of the continent / written by a Portuguese who went in the same expedition ; A brief account of some of the first French voyages to the northern parts of America ; An account of a voyage to Canada / by Samuel Champlain, dedicated to Charles de Montmorencie Lord High Admiral of France ; Monsieur Monts's voyage into New France / written by Mark Lescarbot ; An account of the first English plantation in Virginia ; A relation of a voyage to the northern part of Virginia; perform'd by Captain Gosnott / written by Mr Gabriel Archer, who went the same voyage ; An account of a voyage to Virginia, set forth by the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Southampton, and the Lord Thomas Arundel; performed by Captain Waymouth in the Archangel / written by Mr James Rosier ; An account of the plantation of the southern colony in Virginia, AD 1606 / written by Mr George Percy, to which is prefix'd the first patent for the plantation of Virginia, granted by K James that same year ; The continuation of the Virginian affairs, from AD 1610 to AD 1620 ; An account of the state of the Virginian affairs, from the latter part of AD 1619 till AD 1624 ; The history of Virginia / drawn from the writings of Captain John Smith ; An account of the first plantation of the Bermudas or Summer-Islands, with the natural history of the country / extracted from the memoires of Captain Smith, Mr Richard Norwood, William Strachie, Esq; with some others ; An account of some of the first attempts towards the discovery and plantation of New-England ; A relation of a plantation settled at Plimouth in New-England, with the proceedings thereof ; An account of New-England, with the manners and customs of the natives ; The discovery of New-Scotland, with his Majesties patent for the plantation of the same ; The discovery and plantation of Newfoundland; with an account of the country, and his Majesties patent for the plantation of the same ; An index of the kingdoms, countries, rivers, towns, places, viz in the first volume of 'Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca' ; An index of persons, things, & c, contain'd in the first volume of 'Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca.'
Volume 2
Book I: The ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein's travels into Muscovy ; The ambassadors from the Duke of Holstein's travels into Persia ; The travels of the Duke of Holstein's ambassadors into Persia, Tartary, and Muscovy ; The voyages and travels of Mr John Albert De Mandelslo, (a gentleman belonging to the former embassy) into the East-Indies, in the years 1638,1639, and 1640, containing a particular description of the Empire of the Great Mogul, the kingdoms of Decan, Calicut, Cochim, Zeylon, Coromandel, Pegu, Siam, Cambodia, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Amboina, Banda, the Moluccas, Philippine, and other islands of Japan, the Chinese Empire, the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, & c, in three parts ; John Albert De Mandelsloe's voyages and travels into the East-Indies, & c ; Mr Mandesloe's travels into the East-Indies & c ; The Earl of Carlisle's embassy from King Charles the II, to the Great Duke of Muscovy; and to the Kings of Sweden and Denmark, in the years 1663, and 1664 ; A relation of the first embassy into Muscovy ; A relation of the second embassy into Sweden ; An account of a journey out of Poland into Muscovy, with a relation of the expedition of the Muscovites against the Crim Tartars, the tumults and revolutions, which were contrived and managed chiefly by the Princess Sophia, sister to his present Czarish Majesty Pieter Alexiowitz; from observations upon a journey by land from Muscovy into China, made by Mr Spatarus, and upon the present state of Muscovy, by the Sieur Newstad, hereunto is annexed a letter, from a certain gentleman of Germany, written from Musco concerning the siege of Asoph, and Kasikermeen, and the other warlike exploits of the Muscovites in that war, with some political remarks upon the most remarkable passages that have happened of late in the Muscovite Empire / translated from the low Dutch ; A journal of an embassy from their majesties Iwan and Peter Alexiowitz, Czars of Muscovy & c, over land into China, through the provinces of Ustingha, Siberia, Dauria and the Great Tartary to Peeking, the Metropolis of China, by Everard Isbrand, their ambassador, in the years 1693, 1694, and 1695 / collected by Adam Brand, secretary to the said embassy, and translated from the high-Dutch original, printed at Hamburgh, 1698 ; Of the ancient and modern religion of the Muscovites, done from the French, printed at Cologne, 1698 ; Of the first conversion of the Muscovites to the Christian faith.
Book 2: Travels into divers parts of Asia and Europe, undertaken by the French King's command, to discover a new way by land into China / by Father Averil, of the order of Jesus; done out of French ; Father Averil's travels into Armenia ; Father Averil's travels into some parts of Tartary ; An account of several roads into China ; Father Averil's travels into Muscovy ; The travels of Mr Joannes Baptista Tavernier Bernier thro' Turky [Turkey] into Persia, and the East-Indies; with what is remarkable in Mr de Thevenot's travels into the Levant, and Sir John Chardin's into Persia ; Of his first voyage from Constantinople to Ispahan, the chief city of Persia, through the northern provinces of Turky ; Of the road from Smyrna to Ispahan, through Natolia ; Mr Tavernier's second voyage from Paris to Ispahan, through the southern provinces of Turky, and through the Desarts ; Mr Tavernier's third voyage from Paris to Ispahan, through Mesopotamia and Assyria ; Mr Tavernier's fourth voyage into Asia, viz from Paris to Ormus ; Mr Tavernier's fifth voyage from Paris to Ispahan ; Mr Tavernier's sixth and last voyage from Paris to Ispahan; with a descript. of certain other less remarkable roads thither ; Of several other roads into Persia, and the Indies, necessary to be known by merchants and traders ; Sir John Chardin's travels into Persia ; Persia describ'd & c ; Of the religion of the Persians and Armenians ; Of the kings of Persia, their power and government ; Of the justice and policy of the Persians; wherein their money, weights and measures are considered ; Of the manners, customs and habits of the Persians ; Of the diseases in Persia, with their cures; as also of their death and burial ; Of the roads from Ispahan into the Indies ; Mr Tavernier's travels into India; containing an account of the roads from Candabar, where the Great Mogul resides at present, as also, how to travel to the court of the king of Golconda; and to the king of Visapour; and to many other places in the Indies ; The road from Surat to Agra ; The road from Candabar to Agra ; The road from Agra to Patna and Daca, cities in the province of Bengal ; Of the several roads from Surat to Golconda, and so to Maslipatan, Gandicot and Golconda ; Of the empire and kings of Indostan, called, the Great Moguls, with their court and wars ; Of the commodities, which are brought as well out of the dominions of the Great Mogul, as out of the kingdoms of Golconda, Visapour and other parts of India ; Of the several religions practised in the East-Indies, and things relating to them ; Of the fruits, beasts, birds, and other things remarkable in Mogulistan ; Of several small kingdoms in the Indies, which do not depend upon the Mogul ; The travels of Monsieur Thevenot into the Levant / faithfully abridg'd : with what is further taken notice of by Du Mont, or Le Brun ; On the way to Constantinople, and the description of the city ; Of the shape, strength, cloathing, customs and manners of the Turks ; Of the learning and religion of the Turks ; Of the government of the Turks ; Of the Grand Seignior's forces by land and sea ; Of the Christians and Jews that are subject to the Grand Seignior ; Of the author's voyage from Constantinople to Alexandria, and Grand Cairo, in AEgypt [Egypt]; The author's travels into other parts of AEgypt, and what he observ'd most remarkable ; Mr Thevenot's travels from Cairo into the desarts of Arabia, and to the Red-Sea ; Mr Thevenot's travels to Jerusalem, and several other parts of Judaea, from Cairo in AEgypt ; Mr Thevenot's travels from Alexandria in AEgypt to Leghorn, and so home ; An historical account of the island of Ceilon in the East-Indies [Ceylon] / written by Robert Knox, a captive there near twenty years, improved with all necessary additions taken out of the history of Capt. John Ribeyro, a Portuguese, who has also written