Title
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
Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632-1672
Churchill, Awnsham, 1658-1728
, Collection of voyages and travels
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
Notes
Added title-page, engraved: "A description of èy East India coasts ... " with 1703 imprint.
In double columns.
Detached from Churchill, Awnsham, ed. A collection of voyages and travels ... London, 1704(?) v. III.
Subjects
1703
,
Churchill, A
,
Description and travel
,
Early works to 1800
,
England
,
India
,
London
,
Old Book List
,
Printers and presses
,
Religion
,
Sri Lanka
Call Number
DS411.1 .B17 E1703
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.104540
LCCN:
https://lccn.loc.gov/05009237
OCLC:
5883009
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