1. ‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ Contributor: Pietro Della Valle (author)Henry Herringman (publisher)Edward Terry (author)George Havers (translator)John Macock (publisher) Date: 1665/1665 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (480 pages)
2. 'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' Contributor: R Scot, T Basset, J Wright, and R Chiswell (publisher)Thomas Herbert (author)Wenceslaus Hollar (artist)Robert Everingham (publisher) Date: 1677/1677 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (399 pages)
3. ‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ Contributor: Samuel Smith (publisher)Jan Janszoon Struys (author)John Morrison (translator)Davidt Jansz Butlaer (author) Date: 1683/1683 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (378 pages)
4. '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 TavernierBernier, and other great men.' Contributor: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (author)Henry Oldenburg (author)Francis Hargrave (former owner)John Phillips (author)Edmund Everard (author) Date: 1684/1684 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (898 pages)
5. 'The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies, through the Black Sea, and the country of Colchis. Containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan. To which is added, the coronation of the present King of Persia, Solyman the III.' Contributor: John Chardin (author)Christopher Bateman (publisher) Date: 1691/1691 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (505 pages)
6. 'The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the First' Contributor: Manuel de Faria e Sousa (author)Catherine of Braganza (dedicatee)Charles Brome (publisher)John Stevens (translator) Date: 1694/1694 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (448 pages)
7. 'The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Third' Contributor: John Stevens (translator)Manuel de Faria e Sousa (author)Charles Brome (publisher)Catherine of Braganza (dedicatee) Date: 1694/1694 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (440 pages)
8. 'The Portugues Asia: or, The history of the discovery and conquest of India by the Portugues; containing all their discoveries from the coast of Africk, to the farthest parts of China and Japan; all their battels by sea and land, sieges and other memorable actions; a description of those countries, and many particulars of the religion, government and customs of the natives, &c. In three tomes. Written in Spanish by Manuel de Faria y Sousa, of the Order of Christ. Translated into English by Cap. John Stevens. Tome the Second' Contributor: Manuel de Faria e Sousa (author)Catherine of Braganza (dedicatee)Charles Brome (publisher)John Stevens (translator) Date: 1694/1694 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (526 pages)
9. 'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' Contributor: John Fryer (author)Richard Roberts (publisher)Richard Chiswell (publisher) Date: 1698/1698 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (427 pages)
10. 'A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton who resided in those parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume I.' Contributor: A Bettesworth and C Hitch (publisher)Alexander Hamilton (author) Date: 1739/1739 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (396 pages)
11. 'A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton who resided in those parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume II.' Contributor: A Bettesworth and C Hitch (publisher)Alexander Hamilton (author) Date: 1739/1739 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (309 pages)
12. ‘Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins’ [volume 1] Contributor: S J Baalde (publisher)J von Schoonhoven and Company (publisher)Carsten Niebuhr (author)Peter Forrskål (author)Ferdinand Louis Mourier (translator) Date: 1776/1776 Language: EnglishFrench Extent: 1 volume (409 pages)
13. ‘Voyage en Arabie & en d’autres Pays circonvoisins’ [volume 2] Contributor: S J Baalde (publisher)J von Schoonhoven and Company (publisher)Peter Forrskål (author)Carsten Niebuhr (author)Ferdinand Louis Mourier (translator) Date: 1776/1776 Language: EnglishFrench Extent: 1 volume (389 pages)
14. The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestatesin Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript Creator: Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182 (المنشئ) Date: Date Issued: 1782 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Place of Production: enk, England, London Extent: [52] p. ; 26 cm.
15. 'Observations on the Passage to India, Through Egypt. Also by Vienna through Constantinople to Aleppo, and from thence by Bagdad, and directly across the Great Desert, to Bassora. With Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, an Account of the different Stages, and Sketches of the several Routes on four Copper Plates.' Contributor: James Capper (author)William Faden (publisher)James Robson (publisher)John Sewell (publisher) Date: 1785/1785 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (270 pages)
16. 'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. I.' Contributor: George Forster (author)Robert Faulder (publisher) Date: 1798/1798 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (315 pages)
17. 'A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. By George Forster. In the Civil Service of the Honourable the East-India Company in Two Volumes. Vol. II.' Contributor: George Forster (author)Robert Faulder (publisher) Date: 1798/1798 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (297 pages)
18. 'Journey from India, towards England, in the Year 1797; by a Route Commonly Called Over-land, through Countries Not Much Frequented, and Many of them Hitherto Unknown to Europeans, Particularly between the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, through Curdistan, Diarbek, Armenia, and Natolia, in Asia; and through Romalia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Transylvania, &c.in Europe. Illustrated by a Map and Other Engravings.' Contributor: Cadell and Davies (publisher)John Jackson (author) Date: 1799/1799 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (277 pages)
19. ‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ Contributor: Cadell and Davies (publisher)Wilson and Co (publisher)William Ouseley (author)Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī (author)Hiwi al-Balkhī (author)Muḥammad Abū‘l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (author) Date: 1800/1800 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 volume (327 pages)
20. 'A Tour to Sheeraz by the Route of Kazroon amd Feerozabad with various Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Laws, Language and Literature of the Persians to which is added A History of Persia from the Death of Kureem Khan to the Subversion of the Zund Dynasty' Contributor: Cadell and Davies (publisher)Edward Scott Waring (author)William Bulmer (publisher) Date: 1807/1807 Language: EnglishPersian Extent: 1 volume (329 pages)
21. 'A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1808 and 1809, in which is included some account of the proceedings of his Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart., to the Court of the King of Persia. With twenty-five engravings from the designs of the author; a plate of inscriptions; and three maps.' Contributor: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (publisher)James Justinian Morier (author)Sir 1st Baronet Harford Brydges Jones (author) Date: 1812/1812 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (438 pages)
22. 'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' Contributor: Murray, John, publishers (publisher)Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (publisher)Joseph Banks (former owner)Aaron Arrowsmith (artist)Richard Wellesley (dedicatee)Charles Heath (artist)Sir Knight John Malcolm (author)James Moyes (publisher) Date: 1815/1815 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (715 pages)
23. 'The History of Persia, from the most early period to the present time: containing an account of the religion, government, usages and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. By Colonel Sir John Malcolm, KCB, KLS Late minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from the supreme government of India. In two volumes.' Contributor: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (publisher)Murray, John, publishers (publisher)James Moyes (publisher)Aaron Arrowsmith (artist)Richard Wellesley (dedicatee)Sir Knight John Malcolm (author)Joseph Banks (former owner) Date: 1815/1815 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (644 pages)
24. 'Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde; accompanied by a geographical and historical account of those countries, with a map.' Contributor: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown (publisher)Henry Pottinger (author)Andrew Strahan (publisher)George Boulderson Tod (author) Date: 1816/1816 Language: English Extent: 1 volume (423 pages)