Author: FAWCETT, LADY TRANSLATED. (EDITED BY CHARLES FAWCETT & RICHARD BURNS)
Title: The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674. Three Volumes.
Description: London, Hakluyt Society. 1947, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 3 volume set. 1947/48. lii, 315 p. b/w frontisp. 1 b/w ill. 3 fold. maps/ xxiv, 317-675 p. 1 b/w ill. 3 fold. maps/ xxiii, 677-984 p. b/w frontisp. 2 b/w ills. 3 fold. maps, index. Tape ghosts on endpapers and slight foxing on edges, otherwise in fine condition. Volume one: From France through Syria, Iraq and the Persian Gulf, to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur, with an account of his grave illness. Volume two: From Bijapur toMadras and St. Thome. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St Thome by de la Haye, and of the siege of St Thome by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch. Volume three: Return Journey to France with an account of the Sicilian Revolt against rule at Messina. Very Good.

Keywords: Aleppo, Alexandretta, Arabs, Aurangzeb, Baghdad, Baliapatam, Bandar Abbas, Bantam, Rig, Basra, Batavia, Bengal, Bhagnagar, Hydrabad, Bicholim, Bijapur, Blois, Bombay, Calicut, Cambay, Caravans, Carmelites, Ceylon, Chaul, Constantinople, Cyprus, Daman, Diu


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