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  • Henry Harpur Spry. Etching by C. Grant, 1828.
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    An account of the deep-sea Brachyura collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investigator / by A. Alcock.

    Alcock, A. (Alfred), 1859-1933. | Date: 1899
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    Medicine, trade and empire : Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India (1563) in context / edited by Palmira Fontes da Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

    | Date: [2015]
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    A voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, undertaken in the years 1789 and 1790. Containing an account of the Sechelles Islands and Trincomale ... To which is added, a voyage in the Red Sea. Including a description of Mocha, and of the trade of the Arabs of Yemen ... / Tr. from the French of L. de Grandpré.

    Grandpré, L. de (Louis), 1761-1846. | Date: 1803
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    History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497-1600 / by K.M. Mathew ; foreword, B. Sheik Ali.

    Mathew, K. M., 1939- | Date: 1988
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    Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms / by G.R. Tibbetts.

    Aḥmad ibn Mājid al-Saʻdī, active 1462-1498. | Date: 1971
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