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About the the travels of the Dutch noble John Nieuhoff’s travels, this book presents a compilation of the voyages that he sailed on between 1640 and 1670. The main body of this work is his description of Brazil and the coast of southern India where he stayed for nine years from 1641 to 1650. He describes the native customs, the history of the Portuguese and the Dutch commercial enterprises and the flora and fauna, its spices, its trade with other nations and episodes involving the various European business enterprises there Apart from Brazil, this books describes his travels in Persia, Malabar, Madura, Coromandel, Amboyna, Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Tagowam and parts of China. The book is much illustrated with copper plates of author’s experiences. This big sized book is a part of a work is an extract from a six volumes set dedicated to descriptions of various narratives of travels in the medieval and early modern era. This book is an extract from volume 2 in the set of-6 that is entitled 'A collection of Voyages and Travels' published by Awnsham and John Churchill. This extract is about the narratives of John Neuihoff in Brazil and the East Indies (1640 – 1649). The book is profusely illustrated with engravings that compliment the narrative. This book is a reprint of the 1732 edition. About the Churchill (1658–1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710. The Churchill brothers published in 1695 the edition of William Camden's Britannia by Edmund Gibson, from a manuscript of John Aubrey. A second edition of Gibson's Camden was issued by Awnsham alone in 1722. Their Collection of Voyag
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Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. About the Book:-Describing the travels of the Dutch noble John NieuhoffÕs travels, this book presents a compilation of the voyages that he sailed on between 1640 and 1670. The main body of this work is his description of Brazil and the coast of southern India where he stayed for nine years from 1641 to 1650. He describes the native customs, the history of the Portuguese and the Dutch commercial enterprises and the flora and fauna, its spices, its trade with other nations and episodes involving the various European business enterprises there Apart from Brazil, this books describes his travels in Persia, Malabar, Madura, Coromandel, Amboyna, Ceylon, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, Tagowam and parts of China. The book is much illustrated with copper plates of authorÕs experiences. This big sized book is a part of a work is an extract from a six volumes set dedicated to descriptions of various narratives of travels in the medieval and early modern era. This book is an extract from volume 2 in the set of-6 that is entitled 'A collection of Voyages and Travels' published by Awnsham and John Churchill. This extract is about the narratives of John Neuihoff in Brazil and the East Indies (1640 Ð 1649). The book is profusely illustrated with engravings that compliment the narrative. This book is a reprint of the 1732 edition. About the Author:-Awnsham Churchill (1658Ð1728), of the Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London and Henbury, Dorset, was an English bookseller and radical Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1705 to 1710. The Churchill brothers published in 1695 the edition of William Camden's Britannia by Edmund Gibson, from a manuscript of John Aubrey. A second edition of Gibson's Camden was issued by Awnsham alone in 1722. Their Collection of Voyages and Travels was well known, and was issued to subscribers in 1704. Two more volumes came out in 1732, when the first four volumes were reissued; a "third edition" of the six volumes is dated 1744Ð6; and another by Thomas Osborne, 1752. A Collection from the Library of the Earl of Oxford, London, T. Osborne, 1745 and 1747, 2 vols, known as the "Harleian Collection", and a similar collection by John Harris (1744Ð8 as 2 vols.), are often grouped with Churchill's collection, as reprints of voyages and travels. Locke was involved, and it was stated on the title-page of the third edition that the preliminary essay on the history of navigation was attributed to him, which was later questioned; but it was included in Locke's works in 1812. The Title 'A Collection Of Voyages And Travels 1592-1646 written/authored/edited by Awnsham & John Churchill', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121245890 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 853 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History. Size of the book is 17.78 x 24.13 cms 853. Seller Inventory # PB1111021019577
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