Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies Giving an account of the present state of those countries. As also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life-time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd The paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the grand seignior's seraglio, and also of all the kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian seas. Being the travels of Monsieur Tavernier Bernier, and other great men: adorned with many copper plates. The first volume.

The TABLE to Tavernier's Volum of Japon, China, and Tunquin, &c.

• A Relation of Japon, and of the cause of the Persecution of the Christians in those Islands. pag. 1.
• A Relation of what pass'd in the Negotiation of the Depu∣ties which were sent to Persia and the Indies, as well on the behalf of the French King, as of the French Company, for the settling of Trade. 26
• Observations upon the Trade of the East Indies. 51
• Of the Commodities which are brought as well out of the Dominions of the Great Mogul, as out of the Kingdoms of Golconda and Visapour, and other neighbouring Territories. And also of the Weights and Measures of the said Commodities. 57
• Chap. 1. A discourse in general concerning the City of Tunquin, and of the manner how the Author came to have knowledge thereof. 1
• Chap. 2. Of the Situation and Extent of the Kingdom of Tun∣quin. 5
• Chap. 3. Of the Quality of the Kingdom of Tunquin 7
• Chap. 4. Of the Riches, Trade, and Money of the Kingdom of Tun∣quin. 13
• Chap. 5. Of the Strength of the Kingdom of Tunquin by Sea and Land 14
• Chap. 6. Of the Manners and Customs of the People of the King∣dom of Tunquin. 16
• Chap. 7. Of the Marriages of the Tunquineses, and their Severity toward Adulteresses. 18
• Chap. 8. Of the Visits, Feasts, and Pastimes of the Tunquineses. 21
• Chap. 9. Of the Learned Men in the Kingdom of Tunquin. 24
• Chap. 10. Of their Physicians, and the Diseases of the Tunqui∣neses. 28
• Chap. 11. Of the original Government and Policy of the Kingdom of Tunquin. 31
• Chap. 12. Of the Court of the King of Tunquin. 38
• Chap. 13. Of the Ceremonies observ'd when the Kings of Tunquin are advanced to the Throne. 40
• Chap. 14. Of the Funeral Pomp of the Kings of Tunquin, and of their manners of burying their Dead. 46
• Chap. 15. Of the Religion and Superstition of the Tunquineses. 49
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• ... Chap. 1. Of the Island of Formosa, and how the Hollanders pos∣sessed themselves of it, and how it was taken from them by the Chineses. 57
• Chap. 2. Of Maurice Island, where they cut Ebony. 61
• Chap. 3. Of the Grandeur of the General at Batavia, and what be∣fell his Wife and his Niece. 65
• Chap. 4. Of General Vanderbroug, and of the Original of the City of Batavia. 69
• Chap. 5. Of the Countrey about Cochin, and how the Holland General crown'd one of the Indian Princes. 74
• Chap. 6. Of the Sieur Hollebrand Glins, President of the Factory at Ormus. 77
• Chap. 7. Touching the Islands of the Prince. 79
• Chap. 8 How the Hollanders sent to declare War against the Per∣sians, and of the ill success of their Fleet. 80
• Chap. 9. Of the Severity of the Holland Commanders in the In∣dies. 83
• Chap. 10. Touching the Women. 85