This book is a series of 46 prints of maps and scenes for different countries with each engraving covering a double page spread and featuring a legend in Dutch and French. The scanned copy of the book has numbers in pencil of the top right hand corner of each print.
Print 1 is a map of the world; print 3 is the map of Indes Orientales which includes India; print 8 is a scene of the Grand Mogol and diamond mines; print 9, precious stones; print 10, wild animlas including tigers and elephants; print 11, a siege with the Roi de Golconde; print 13, trees and religous artifacts; prints 14 and 16, plants and trees of the Indes Orientales; print 17, vessel construction; prints 18 and 20, birds and trees; print 28, musical instruments; print 31, the court of the Grand Mogol; print 33, wedding ceremonies; print 38, commerce in Indes Orientales.

This is listed in the BL main catalogue. It seem to be Volume 1 of 2 books, with the second volume being the same title for years 1676 and 1677.
There is one chapter, XVI, 84-90p, entitled “Arrivée de M. Chevreüil Missionaire François à Surate etc” which refers to India. This does refer to the 1661 overland voyage of M. d’Heliopolis, see ref 23 above. There are references to Goa, Surate, Bantam, Cochin. The following chapter XVII, 90p, is on Bantam; chapter XVIII, 94p, Balaçor in Bengale; chapter XIX, 98-104p, “Projet d’un Seminaire de Bracmanes dans le Bengale”. This is the end of part 1 of the book. Further chapters of note include in 1674, “M. de Foissy de Chamesson…est fait prisonnier à Masulipatan’, 192p and “On transporte M. de Chamesson de Masulipatan à Golconde”, 198p, with subsequent chapters about being in prison in Golconde until his death, 212p. Further on in the book, 309p, there is discussion of a M Sevin’s group dividing into 2 bands to travel from Bassora to Surate separately. One group seems to have gone via Daman.

This book describes a voyage leaving Rome in October 1618 to China, via Lisbon and arriving in Goa in October 1619, 18p. After 3 months in Goa the writer became ill and was sent to Salsette to recover, 23p, for 3 months. He spent 2.5 years in Goa before leaving for China, in April 1622, via Cochin, 28p, and then Ceylan, 32p, and passed by Meliapor and la coste de Coromandel, 34p, on his way to Malaque, 35p, where he stayed for 9 months before continuing to China, where he spent many years. The return from China, in December 1645, is described in the troisieme partie, 263p, of the book and went via Malaque and was then imprisoned by the Dutch in Jaquetra in 1646. When he was realeased he was taken aboard an English ship and reached Surate, 308p, where he spent 4 months before leaving for Perse, 312p, and Armenia and eventually arriving back in Rome in June 1649.

Premiere Partie, 877pp. The discourse on Asie is from 34-46p, with the section on Inde on 36-40p. There are references to gem stones, Malabar and its 5 or 6 Royaumes including Calecut, as well as Narsingue, Bisnagar, Cap de Camorin, Goa. There are further references in Indes which is used in general terms.
Part 2 relates to Germany, 770pp. Inde is not mentioned and Indes Orientales is references twice. No places in Inde are mentioned.
Part 3 relates to Spain and also to Portugal, 431pp. Indes Orientales is used multiple times and Goa once relating to the Archeveque de Goa, 226p. There are no specific mentions of Inde or other places in Inde.

The book is divided into 3 livres. Livre 1 seems to be christian ceremonies; Livre 2, Mahometans ceremonies; and Livre 3, (p. 52), des peuples idolatres & payens, which contains the ceremonies on les Indiens. These include those of Bisnagar (p. 53), Canara, Malabar (p. 54), Conchin (p. 56), Bengala (p. 57), Chine , Japon, Canarins of Isle de Goa (p. 63) and then the Americas and Australe.

The book has continous page numbering across the 2 parts, hence Part 1 is 1-132p and Part 2 is 133-292p. Part 1 is a discourse on the science of geography and has few references to Inde or places in Inde – Surate and Goa are mentioned once on 128p. Livre 1 in Part 2 is about astronomical geography with livre 2 being La Geographie Naturelle, 239p. References to Inde and places in Inde can be found from 211p onwards. On 223p there is discussion about the capital of the Grand Mogol now being Delli and Agra before. On 251p is the start of a section on the subdivisions of Asia which includes the Mogol empire. Later there are mentions of religion and languages in Inde.

The first voyage went to Siam via Madagascar. They then visited Formosa, Japan, back to Siam and then returned to Holland. There was no visit to India.
The second voyage was to the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey.
The third voyage was to la Moscovie, Astracan, Scamachi, Schiras, Gomron in the Persian Gulf and then by ship to Batavia going round le cap de Comorin but not stopping in Inde. The route back via the Cape if Good Hope, did not stop at Inde.
The final section of the book (after 438p) has new page numbering (1-80p) and is on the shipwreck of the Schelling near the coast of Bengal. The surviving crew eventually landed, it is not clear where, but it seems to have been forested without many humans. The crew had many misadventures and eventually reached Rengumati. It is not clear where this is , however they eventually spent 15 months in the Grand Mogol’s army and spent some time in Assam.

This book is separated into 6 livres with continuous page numbering.
Livre I, 1-54p, is the introduction to St Xavier life and his travels to Lisbonne.
Livre II, 55-123p, is the voyage from Lisbonne leaving on 7/4/1541, via Mozambique, and arriving at Goa, 69p, on 6/5/1542. He stayed in Goa until October 1542 when he left to go via Cap de Courmorin, Paravas and la Coste de Pecherie, 84p, and then retured to Goa after a year. He returned to la Coste de Pecherie, 110p, and Bisnagar, staying at Travancor.
Livre III, 124-214p, he planned to go to Cambaye and returned to Cochin by the coast, arriving there on 16/12/1544, 133p. He travelled to Cambaye, Jasanpatan, Macazar, Meliapor. He then travelled to Malaca, 163p, and Moloques and Amboyne and then returned to Malaca in 1547.
Livre IV, 215-333p, is mainly about Malaca, however St Xavier leaves again for Goa and Cochin, 266p. On 25 April 1547 he left for Japon, 319p, from Cochin and went via Malaca.
Livre V, 334-477p, is about Japon. He seems to have fled from Japon and arrived in Macao in February 1551, 370p, before returning to Amanguchi and Bungo. He left Japon in November 1551 and returned to Cochin arriving 24 Jan 1552, 462p, and then going onto Goa.
Livre VI, 478-634p, he stayed in Goa and left in April 1552 for Malaca and then planned to go to Chine. However he died on 3 December 1552, aged 46 years, 534p, on Shangchuan Island. His body was eventually transported back to Goa via Malaca.

This volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the 4 parts of this compilation.
Part 3: the first chapters concern the Dutch ambassadors to China and specifically to Pekin. One chapter describes the route to Pekin. However all the places described are in China. There is a chapter on the geography of China and its 15 provinces (up to p. 216). The following chapter is a report by the directors of the Dutch East Indies Company which includes Coromandel (p. 222), Bengale, Oriza, Cochin (p. 223), Surate (p. 224).
Part 4: this starts on p. 229. Early chapters concern South America, including the river Plate and Perou. There are later chapters about a voyage to China in Italian and Latin, followed by Voyage de P Greuber in which he discusses a French merchant called Tavernier, who travelled throughout India (p. 130). Later there are chapters on Ethopia, Abyssins, les sources du Nil, Sayd and Mexico.

The full name of the publisher is veuve Biestkins.

Tome 1, 303pp, describes M Dellon’s voyage to Inde in more detail than the 1688 book reference (see below) by M Dellon. He left Le Havre on 20 March 1668 and travelled by ship Madagascar. The ship left Madagascar on 12 August 1669 and arrived off the coast of Surate at the end of September, 74p. Chap XIV, 78p, and following chapters are about Surate, as well as the different religions of Inde, funerary practices and temples. They left Surate on 6 Janvier 1670 for Malabar, 121p. There is discussion of the Malabar coast including Cananor and Calicut, as well as the fruit, spices, animals and the people etc. They left Baliepatan, 257p, for Tilcery, which is described including various “troubles”,which they left on 16 Juin 1671, 276p. Premier Tome finishes on 284p.
Tome 2, 245pp, commences with a discussion on Calicut, Tanor, Baliepatan, Tilcery, Mangalor and Goa, 42p. There is a description of Goa which they left on 65p for Surate, 71p and then Ormue and Gameron, which they left on 10 Decembre 1672 and returned to Surate. The author spent some time in prison in Daman and Trapor and left Daman on 1 Janvier 1674, 114p. He stayed at Bacaim and then Goa, which he left on a Portuguese ship bound for Lisbonne, via Bresil, on 27 Janvier 1676. He left Lisbonne on 22 Juillet 1677 and arrived back in France on 18 Aout 1677. The following section describes the maladies, and their remedies, of the Orient and Inde.

This 1686 edition of this work carries multiple places of publication, including Amsterdam, London and Paris.
L’ouvrage a été édité à plusieurs endroits la même année (Amsterdam, Londres, Paris).

The author of Tome 1 (465 pp) is Arnoldus Montanus. There is also an edtion from 1696 listed in the British Library main catalogue. This book is a travelogue of Japan, Macao and parts of China. Goa is mentioned twice (p. 261 and p. 264), Surate twice, (p. 234 and p. 143). There is also mention of Coromandel. No other places in Inde are mentioned.
Tome 2 (522 pp.) does not mention Inde. There is one reference to Surate (p. 4). No other places in Inde are mentioned.

The first chapters of the book are about the arrest of the author in Daman. Subsequent chapters discuss how he got to Inde via le Cap de Bonne Esperance, Isle de Bourbon, Mozambique, Isle de Socotora and Surate, 53p. The following chapters discuss Surate, Goa, Malabar, Calicut, Cochin, Cap de Comorin. Chapter IX, 86p, starts discussing the inquisition and the causes of his detention in Daman in August 1673 and a description of the prison. He was transferred to Goa in January 1674 and gives a description of the inquisition, ChapXV, 131p. The following chapters describe the various audiences of the inquisition and his penitences. Chapter XL,343p, describes leaving Goa for Lisbonnel in January 1676 via Bresil. In Lisbonne he requested, from the inquisition, his release, which was agreed in June 1677, and he then voyaged back to France.

This book centres on Siam. However, there are some references to places in Inde, particularly to do with trade on the Coromandel coast. It includes mention of Madras (p. 71), Meliapour and the death of St Thomas (p. 234), and religion and Brames (p. 177). Mogol and les Empereurs du Mogol are mentioned (pp. 104, 284, 307 and 313), as well as the Roy de Golgonde (p. 321). No other places in Inde are mentioned and otherwise Inde and Indes are used in a general regional sense.

This book is divided into 2 parts.
Part 1 includes the first voyage which commenced in March 1665 from Brest and went via the Cape of Good Hope to Madagascar and Fort Dauphin. There is no further travel from there and M Rennefort returned to France in 1667 via Londres.
Part 2 (189p). This voyage seems to have left France to go to Brazil. After Brazil the ships went across the Atlantic to Madagascar and Fort Dauphin. There is a voyage from Madagascar for Surate on 27 October 1667 (242p) and Cochim which returned to Madagascar. Another Sieur also voyaged from Madagascar to Ceylon (250p) and then to India via cap de Comorin (255p) arriving at Cochin and then Calicut. There are descriptions of the towns. as well as Goa. They then voyaged to Surate. There is a chapter on commerce in the Indes (294p) and gaining permission du Grand Mogol, Roys de Visiapour, de Golconde, & des Princes de Bengale. The following chapters discuss Surate, the Malabar coast finally leaving Inde for Madagascar (363p).

The page extent is based on the 1715 edition. Both the 1689 and 1715 editions are in the BL. The edition available online is from 1715 and both tomes are printed in Paris by François Montalant.
Tome 1, 698pp Tome 2, 694pp. Whilst this book is about Japan, Goa, in particular, is mentioned frequently throughout the text, commencing from 58p, usually in the context of l’Eveque de Goa and as a port of embarquation. Cochin is mentioned 3 times.
The second tome, like tome 1, is mainly about the church in Japan, however Goa, in particular is again mentioned extensively throughout the text in the context of a transfer port for the voyage to Japan as well as its theological importance in the Eastern Catholic church – “Il étudia en Theologie à Goa” 467p etc.

There are a number of edtions of this book from 1689 and 1727. The 1689 edition is printed in 3 parts with 5 volumes.
Premiere Partie, 401pp, livres 1 and 2. This is his voyage to Sicily, Malta, Turkey, Egypt and the Middle East.
Seconde Partie, 785pp, livres 3 and 4. This book is the travels in Persia and what is now Iraq. He departed from Bassora by ship via Ormus to Indes and Sourat, livre quatrieme, 593p onwards.
Troisieme Partie – This part has a different title from the first 2 parts and is divided into livres 1 and 2.
This book continues the journey from the previous part, with the author spending 2 months traveling on a ship from Bassora to Sourat and arrived there in January 1666. The whole book discusses Inde and includes Sourat, Malabar, Deccan, Agra, Goa, the Indian Provinces, Golconde plus many other places. After his tour he departed from Sourat in February 1667 to Bender-Abassi in Persia and then onto Chyras (Shiraz?) where he injured his thigh with his pistol. He left Chyras on 25 october 1667, but became ill and died some time after the 16 November.
N.B. The 1727 3rd edition is printed in 5 separate parts with part 5 being the book about Inde (part 3 of 1689 edition). There is also an English translation of the final part dated 1687.

Volume 1, 446pp, focuses on Siam and does not mention the voyage to Inde. Inde is mentioned in general terms however Indien and Mogol are refered to and Chapter 21 (p. 381) is entitled Des principes de la Morale Indienne.
Volume 2, 329pp, is again about Siam and includes references to plants etc. There is a chapter on the Cape of Good Hope, but no references to places in Inde. There is a chapter on Siamese astronomical rules which is followed by Reflexions sur les Régles Indiennes> (p. 150) and Le Problème des quarrés Magiques selon les Indiens (p. 235), which is about numbers and mathematics. The final chapter is a meditation by Cassini on the position of the Isle de Taprobane which Ptolomée suggested was “entre l’Inde & le Gange” (p. 321).

This books describes a number of overland routes to Chine. There is mention of 6 routes via”Indes & du Mogol” which includes Samarkand, Kaboul, Kachemire, 170-175p, which also discuss the Dalaë-Lama. Inde and places in Inde are not part of these routes and are not mentioned.

The full name of the publisher is veuve de Jean Baptiste Coignard and Jean Baptiste Coignard fils.
This is an account of a voyage to the East Indies (1690-1691) under command of the French naval officer Abraham Duquesne-Guiton. In 1690 a fleet of six ships was despatched under Duquesne-Guiton to rescue the Siam mission and to pick up company goods stored in India. The Siam enterprise had met with disaster due to the political upheavals in Siam during 1688. During this voyage the fleet visited Cape Verde, Madagascar, Pondicherry and Ceylon. After sailing along the coasts of southern India and attacking a few places, the ships returned to France in 1691 via America (the islands Ascension and Martinique) with a valuable cargo. The author describes in detail the people, the difficulties encountered during the voyage, the battles with the English and the Dutch, and gives observations on the fauna, etc.

The main text in this catalogue is written in Latin. There are sections on Asia which have references to Inde and Indes in French, 340-345p, 380p.

Volume 1 covers the classical study of maps and geography, as well as the countries of Spain, Portugal, Holland, Flamands and Switzerland. Indes is mentioned in general terms, such as Indes Orientales. Goa, Surate and Gujarat are mentioned once as being in Inde. The main discussion of Inde is in Volume 4.
Volume 2 covers the other countries in Europe, excluding France (see Volume 3) but including Tartarie. There are no references to Inde or places in Inde.
Volume 3 is about France and does not concern Inde.
Volume 4 describes Asia and the chapters on Inde commence with Chapter 7 (p. 98) L’empire du Grand Mogol, with the following chapters (as far as p. 129) discussing the principle towns and lands around and beyond the Ganges. On p. 111 there is a table of the provinces with the main towns; these are discussed later, Goa (p. 113), Calicut (p. 114), Agra and Delli (p. 106).
The Bibliteca Digital Hispanica link includes all 4 volumes.

This book is not about Inde per se. Indes is mentioned a number of time in general terms such as: un sage des Indes, d’or des Indes, conquêtes dans les Indes, les philosophes des Indes etc. No places in Inde are mentioned.

< align=”justify”>Inde is not mentioned, however Indes is used a number of times and includes; a fort “dans les Indes Orientales, qui s’apelle Tranquebar”, 6p; 47p; 167p; “Le Roi a dans les Indes Orientales une petite Forteresse nommée Tranquebar, & située sur la Côte de Coromandel”, 168p.

There are a number of editions of this book in the British Library dating between 1696-1700. The Google Books links are for the 1697 edition, which is in 2 volumes.
Volume 1 only refers to Chine with no references to Inde or places in Inde.
Volume 2 contains multiple references to Indes and places in Inde (Goa, Malabar, Coromandel, Maduré. From p. 322 onwards there is a letter on “Idée générale des observations que nous avons faites dans les Indes & à la Chine”.

This book is in essence an alphabetically ordered encyclopaedia of the Orient. While Inde per se does not have its own entry, many places in Inde do, such as Agra, Deheli (Delli), Guzarate (Hend), Decan, Visapour, Sourat, Malabar, Meliapour, Mogor etc. Interestingly, Goa does not have its own entry neither does Japon.
According to Bies (1973), this work is largely inspired by Bernier 1670.

The text is written in a mixture of Latin and French and hence “Inde” is found in the Latin sections. On p. 239 there is a section on Des Liturgies Arabes & Syriaques , de celle des Ethiopiens, des Maronites, des Armeniens, des Indiens, & des Muscovites. On p. 253 there is a small section regarding l’Isle de Malabar aux Indes and the translation of a text by the Archeveque de Goa. Further mentions of Indian Christian traditions are on p. 517, 530, 667.

The first page of the “avertissement” of the book says that Pilpay was a Bramine Indien who composed these tales when he was a governor of a part of Indostan. A lot of the fables are tales of 2 animals, such as “Des elephans & de lapins” or “Des corbeaux, & des hiboux”. Indes is mentioned in general terms and none of the usual cities in Inde are mentioned. However there is mention of Sirandib, 20-1p and 51p and Matou.

This 1698 edition is listed in the BL catalogue, but not Goldsmith. The reference in Goldsmith, which is also in the BL catalogue, is BLANGUET DE LA HAYE, Jacob, and CARON, François. Journal du voyage des grandes Indes.3 parts. Orleans: F. BOGER, 1697.
The 1698 book is in 2 parts with each part having its own frontpiece and page numbering.
Part 1, 268pp, the voyage commences on 30 March 1670 and reaches Fort Dauphin in Madagascar about 1 December 1670. The ships left Fort Dauphin on 1 August 1671, 81p, going north and reached the Red Sea on 22 September 1671. They seem to have stayed in this region with M Carron making a trip to Surate, 101p. On 9 January 1672 , the ships headed for Daman, 109-124p, and the following pages discuss Daman and the surrounding region of Inde. They arrive off Goa on 25 January 1672, 126-152p, before setting sail for Trinquemale and Candy and arrived there around 1 April 1672, 160p. They left around 1 July 1672, 222p, towards the east coast of Inde and arrived off St Thomas, 242p. Part 1 ends on 30 July 1672.
Part 2, 216pp, continues on 1 August 1672 at St Thomas, Madras and Pondicherry and describes the various conflicts with the Dutch, English, Cascarins and Mores. The book ends on 23 September 1674 with the author leaving Inde.

Tome premier, 321pp. The first section of this book, 1-157p, is the “Histoire des estats du Grand Mogol” and is the same text as reference 8 above. The next section, 158-268p, is “Evenemens particuliers”, with the final section, 269-320p, being “Lettre de l’estat de l’Hindoustan”. There are multiple references to Inde and places in Inde through the text.

Tome Seconde, 358pp. The first section, 1-96p, is a description of Delhi and Agra, including the “Taje-Mehalle”. There follows a letter, 97-168p, on the doctrines and superstitions “des Indous ou gentils de l’Hindoustan”. 169-205p is a letter discussing “la doctrine des Atômes etc”. 206-353p is a collection of of letters about the “Voyage de Kachemire”.

Note the copy of Volume 2, pages 232 to 331 seem to be missing. Full details of the publisher are: veuve de Claude Barbin au Palais, sur le second perron de la Sainte-Chapelle, MDCXCIX.

Full details of publisher are: Paul Marret, March and Libraire dans le Beurs-straat, à la Renommée.

Volume 1 covers the history of Portugal up to 1495. The chapters are a linear history and are named after the king on the throne at that time. There are a number of mentions of Indes in the book, although some refer to Indes Occidentales and Colomb. However Goa and Calicut are mentioned in 1486 as ports visited by Covillan.
Volume 2 covers Portuguese history from 1495-1521. The volume has extensive references to Goa and Cochin (over 50 pages each) from 1499 onwards, as well as Calicut, Zamorin, Inde and Indes. The book gives a linear history of Portuguese involvement in Inde and hence references to Inde and places in Inde can be found in most chapters of the book.

Note : this is the French translation of an anthology of Dutch travel narratives, whose original title is Begin ende Voortgangh van de vereenighde Nederlantsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie. According to Dodds (1990) they were widely read in France in the eighteenth century.
Note: traduction française d’une compilation de relations de voyages hollandaises (dont le titre original est « Begin ende voortgangh van de vereenighde Nederlantsche geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie ») écrites entre 1594 et 1620 qui a, selon M. Dodds (1980), beaucoup circulé en France au XVIIIème s.

Note: this work was also published in the Hague in the same year.
Note: ouvrage publié la même année à La Haye.

These 2 volumes with different publication dates are listed together in the BL main catalogue, with an accompanying explanation. It seems Tome 2 for 1724 does not exist.

Note: this work would be republished, for example, in 1745.
Note: l’ouvrage sera ré-édité notamment en 1745.

The 1736 edition is in 2 volumes.
Note : this work would be republished, for example, in 1749 in the Hague and in 1765 in Paris with the title ‘The 1001 Evenings. Mughal Tales’.
Note: ré-édité, notamment en 1749 à La Haye et en 1765 à Paris, sous le titre « Les mille et une soirées. Contes Mogols.

Note: republished in 1743.
Note: ré-édité en 1743.

Notes: this collection of handwritten papers , edited by M. de Soleinne is undated.
Note: cette collection de feuillets manuscrits, regroupés par M. de Soleinne, n’est pas daté.

Volume 1. This series of books is a linear history of Les Indes Orientales. The start of the book has an alphabetical list of authors referenced. The book commences in Roman times and includes chapters on religion, kings, commerce etc. By Chapter IX, 251p, the book reaches the middle ages and the first date annotated in the margin is 1405, 271p. Chapter X, 341p, is about “Interruption & renouvellemt des voiages aux Indes. Establissement des Portugais”.
Volume 2 is the description of “Indes Modernes” and includes geography, including the lands within and beyond the Ganges, religions and isles.
Volume 3 centres on the commerce of Inde with other countries. Chapter I is trade with Portugal, Holland, England, Denmark and Venice. Chapter II, 81p, is trade with France which continues to the end of the book.

Note: volumes 7 to 12 inclusive, published in 1747 only concern journeys to Africa.
Note: les tomes 7 à 12 inclus, publiés en 1747, ne traitent que des voyages en Afrique.

Note: published anonymously, then republished in the following year with the well-known title Zadig or Destiny, An Oriental Tale.
Note: publié sans nom d’auteur, l’ouvrage est publié à nouveau l’année d’après sous le titre bien connu de « Zadig ou la Destinée.

Note : in 1755 this work would be republished in the Hague with a note on the life of the author.
Note: L’ouvrage est ré-édité, avec une vie de l’auteur, à La Haye en 1755.

Note : although this work does not contain any substantial references to India it is indispensable for the understanding of orientalist thought in the eighteenth century.
Note: si l’ouvrage ne parle pas spécifiquement de l’Inde, il est indispensable pour comprendre la pensée des « orientalistes » du XVIIIème siècle.

Note: The anonymous republication of Memnon, an Oriental Tale, includes a spurious dedication to the Sultana of Sheera by Sadi as well as a change of title.
Note: Cette ré-édition, elle aussi anonyme, de « Memnon, histoire orientale » comprend, outre un changement de titre, une fausse « épître dédicatoire à la sultane Shéraa par Sadi.