cover image: A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, seaand field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c . of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts ...with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. By Philip Baldaeus ... Translated fr...

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A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel; as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, seaand field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c . of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts ...with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals. By Philip Baldaeus ... Translated fr...

1703

Added title-page, engraved: "A description of ÿ East India coasts ... " with 1703 imprint. In double columns. Detached from Churchill, Awnsham, ed. A collection of voyages and travels ... London, 1704(?) v. III. Also available online. Provenance: N. A. Forde (donor) Elecresource
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Authors

Baldaeus, Philippus 1632-1672, Churchill, Awnsham -1728 Collection of voyages and travels

Dates
1703]
Format
2 p.l., 563-901, [17] p. front., illus. (incl. port.) fold. plates, fold. maps. 33 cm
Place Discussed
India Sri Lanka
Provider
Smithsonian Institution
Published in
India
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/257513d858e7d7860dc69cd5fe9e96b7

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