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, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, D975 .M35
-t. 1. Introduction. Hongrie et Transylvanie. Russie méridionale. Notes sur la Hongrie.-t. 2. Turquie. Asia-Mineure. Syrie. Documents historiques... Show more-t. 1. Introduction. Hongrie et Transylvanie. Russie méridionale. Notes sur la Hongrie.-t. 2. Turquie. Asia-Mineure. Syrie. Documents historiques relatifs à l'historie politique de la Turquie en 1807.-t. 3. Syrie. Basse-Éqypte: Alexandrie. Route d'Alexandrie au Caire. Le Caire. Documents relatifs à l'expédition d'Égypte.-t. 4. Moyenne et haute Égypte. La désert et les bords de la mer Rouge. Second séjour au Caire. Retour en Europe. Notes sur l'Égypte, écrites par l'empereur Napoléon. Pièces relatives à la prise de Malte. Observations physiques.-t. 5. Introduction. Essai historique sur la Sicile. Voyage en Sicile. Note sur Murat. Vol. 5 has title: Voyage ... en Sicile. Show less
1. Préface. Table de Schnurrer. Les proverbes -- 2. Kalilah -- 3. Louqmâne et les fabulistes. Barlaam. 'Antar et les romans de chevalerie -- 4-7.... Show more1. Préface. Table de Schnurrer. Les proverbes -- 2. Kalilah -- 3. Louqmâne et les fabulistes. Barlaam. 'Antar et les romans de chevalerie -- 4-7. Les mille et une nuits -- 8. Syntipas -- 9. Pierre Alphonse. Secundus. Recueils orientaux. Tables de Henning et de Mardrus. Contes occidentaux. Les maqâmes -- 10. Le Coran et la tradition -- 11. Mahomet -- 12. Le mahométisme. par Victor Chauvin. Spine title: Bibliographie arabe. " ... Vol. 12 completed by Marie Louis Polain ..."--See BM below and cf. Avant-propos, p. [v]-vi in vol. 12. "Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres ... et subventionné par la Deutsche morgenländische Gesellschaft."--Cover, vols. 7-11. "Publications de Monsieur Victor Chauvin"--Vol. 12, p. [3-4] of wrappers. Publisher's ads: vols. 3-9, p. [4] of wrappers; vol. 10, p [3] of wrappers; vol. 11, p. [2-3] of wrappers. "Table alphabétique de la Bibliotheca arabica de Schnurrer"-Vol. I, p. [xli]-cxvii. Show less
