Author: FOSTER, SIR WILLIAM
Title: The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies 1612-14
Description: London, Hakluyt Society. 1934, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, lvi, 316 pages, 4 maps. Bookplate on front endpaper, faint old stamp on verso of title page. "Best commanded the tenth voyage sponsored by the East India Company (1612-1614). With two ships, the Dragon and Hoseander, he reached India in September 1612, set up a factory at Surat, and then proceeded to Achin, Sumatra. He returned to England with a valuable cargo in the Dragon, June 1614.". Very Good.

Keywords: St Helena, Trinidad, Achin, Ahmadabad, Bantam, Benzoin, Calico, Cambay, Diu, Goa, Jahingar, Malabar, Sir Henry Middleton, Muzafarabad, Pepper, Priaman, Siam, Thailand, Surat, Table Bay, Tiku,


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