Aurangzeb , 1618-1707, History, History, Description and travel, Court and courtiers, Social life and customs, DS461.7 .B47 1671
The history of the late revolution of the dominions of the Great Mogol -- Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of... Show moreThe history of the late revolution of the dominions of the Great Mogol -- Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of five years, or thereabout, in the empire of the Great Mogol -- A letter to the Lord Colbert, of the extent of Indostan, the circulation of gold and silver coming at length to be swallow'd up there as in an abyss, the riches, forces, justice and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia. by Monsr F. Bernier, physitian of the faculty of Montpelier ; English'd out of French. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initial letters. Title page followed by seven pages of "An extrait of a letter written to Mr. H.O. from Monsr de Monceaux the younger, giving a character of the book here Englished and its author", which is followed by six pages of contents and an errata page. With a final advertisement leaf. Pagination: [16], 258, [2], 176, 102, [2] p. Page 208 is wrongly printed as 082. Translation by Henry Oldenburg of author's Histoire de la dernière révolution des états du Grand Mogol, 1670. Volume two, entitled "Particular events, or, The most considerable passages after the war of five years, or thereabout, in the empire of the Great Mogol" has separate pagination and title page with following imprint: London : printed by S.G. for Moses Pitt at the white Hart in Little Britain, 1671. The third part entitled "A letter to the Lord Colbert, of the extent of Indostan, the circulation of gold and silver coming at length to be swallow'd up there as in an abyss, the riches, forces, justice and the principal cause of the decay of the states of Asia" has also separate pagination. Copy in FCO Historical collection is a variant copy without a Wing reference number. Imprint reads: London : printed and are to be sold by John Williams, book-seller in Plymouth, 1671. The map is signed: "Cross sculp:" Main Heritage Shelves General DS461.7 .B47 1671 Book Item-ID: i10203618 BIB-ID: 1021997 Text also available online from EEBO at: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home. English translation of French original. Copy in Marsden Collection has armorial bookplate of William Marsden on front paste-down. UkLU-K Copy in FCO Historical Collection is from the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. It has a ms. inscription on second free endpaper: "E Libris Thomae Hewett, Anno Domini 1719" and a ms. inscription in Indic script on the same page. There is another ms. inscription on title page in another hand: "L. Moody, Mrs Hill". UkLU-K Show less
Description and travel, DS412 .I263 1819, 425.4 Ib5d
ex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar,... Show moreex arabico Ebn Batutae Itinerario edita ; interpretatione et annotationibus instructa per Henricum Apetz. Ibn Batutta's description of Malabar, south-western India. Original Arabic text, edited with a Latin translation and annotations by the Jena oriental scholar and entomologist Johann Heinrich Gottfried Apetz (1794-1857), a student of L. G. Kosegarten, to whom this effort is dedicated. - Ibn Battuta's famous "Rihla" (literally, "The Journey") is considered one of the most significant Mediaeval eyewitness accounts of the Middle East. Over a period of thirty years, the Muslim Moroccan explorer Abu-‘Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Batutah (1304-77?) visited most of the known Islamic world, including North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East - a distance surpassing his near-contemporary Marco Polo. He journeyed more than 75,000 miles, a figure unsurpassed by any individual explorer until the coming of the Steam Age some 450 years later, and is considered one of the greatest travellers of all time. After returning home from his travels in 1354, Ibn Battuta dictated an account of his journeys to Ibn Juzayy, a scholar whom he had previously met in Granada. The account is the only source for Ibn Battuta's adventures. For centuries his book was obscure, even within the Muslim world, but in the early 19th century extracts were published in German and English based on manuscripts discovered in the Middle East, containing abridged versions of Ibn Juzayy's Arabic text. - Slight browning and duststaining; ownership "S. H. Lewin" (dated 1828) on t. p. Main Heritage Compact General DS412 .I263 1819 Book Item-ID: i16843642 BIB-ID: 1509208 Show less
TravelChardin, John , 1643-1713, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .C43 1720
Adorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes... Show moreAdorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes published. Later states have "two" substituted for "eight" and "Vol. I" deleted. Principal title-page printed in red and black. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .C43 1720 Book vol.2 Item-ID: i10233465 BIB-ID: 1024982 Translation by Lloyd of part of vols. 3 and 4 of Chardin's Voyages en Perse (Amsterdam, 1711 edition). Show less
TravelChardin, John , 1643-1713, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS257 .C43 1720
Adorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes... Show moreAdorn'd and illustrated with a great number of cutts. By Edm. Lloyd, Esq. "In eight volumes" - note on principal title-page. Only two volumes published. Later states have "two" substituted for "eight" and "Vol. I" deleted. Principal title-page printed in red and black. Main Heritage Shelves General DS257 .C43 1720 Book vol.1 Item-ID: i20243686 BIB-ID: 1024982 Translation by Lloyd of part of vols. 3 and 4 of Chardin's Voyages en Perse (Amsterdam, 1711 edition). Show less
Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, G160 .T44 1687
Includes index. Pagination: Part 1: [38], 291, [1], [1] leaf of plates. Part 2: [2], 104, [105]-[108], 105-176, 179-200 p., [3] leaves of plates.... Show moreIncludes index. Pagination: Part 1: [38], 291, [1], [1] leaf of plates. Part 2: [2], 104, [105]-[108], 105-176, 179-200 p., [3] leaves of plates. Part 3: [2], 64, 63-90, (91)-(93), [1], 91-114, [4] p. Parts I-III have part title pages. Running title differs in part 3: "Travels into the Indies". Engraved portrait of the author facing title page, signed "W. Faithorne sc." Statement on title page: "Licensed, Decemb. 2. 1686. Ro. L'Estrange." Unnumbered pages. Part 1: Title page, eleven-page preface by the translator, signed "A. Lovell", eight-page letter from Monsieur de la Croix to the author, twelve-page tables of contents for parts 1-3, one-page errata list, and part title page. Part 2: part title leaf. Part 3: part title leaf; four-page index of geographical names at end of vol. Main Heritage Shelves General G160 .T44 1687 Book Item-ID: i10233817 BIB-ID: 1025017 Show less
Mechanics, Analytic, Mechanics, Analytic--Early works to 1800, Mechanical engineering, Mechanical engineering--Early works to 1800, QA804 .R64 1716
By Thomas Watts, of the Accomptant's Office, for Qualifying Young Gentlemen for Business. A translation of Jacques Rohault's "Les mhaniques",... Show moreBy Thomas Watts, of the Accomptant's Office, for Qualifying Young Gentlemen for Business. A translation of Jacques Rohault's "Les mhaniques", originally published in 1682 in "Oeuvres posthumes." With a recommendatory preface by William Whiston. Collation: 8vo: A⁸( -A8) B-L⁸ M1[=A8] [$4 signed]; 88 leaves, pp. [14 unn.] [1] 2-160 [161-162] [misprinting 112 as 102] + plates, 'Tab 1'-'Tab 4'. Title within double line border; head-pieces, initials. Errata: prelim. p. [14] (A7v). Advertisement, "At the Accomptant's-Office for Qualifying Young Gentlemen for Business, in Abchurch-Lane ... ": prelim. p. [2], facing title. Main Heritage Shelves General QA804 .R64 1716 Book Item-ID: i23451439 BIB-ID: 2504258 Show less