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Credit: Sales catalogue 521: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1680 A.D. [534] RYCAUT (Paul). The History of the Turkish’ Empire from the year 1623, to the year 1677. Containing the Reigns of the three last _Emperours, viz., Sultan Morator Amurat IV, Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the XIIIth Emperour now Reigning. Folio, original calf. London, 1680. £1 Ios. 1681 A.D. [535] MARTINEZ DE LA PUENTE (Joseph). Compendio de las Historias de los Descubrimientos, conquistas, y guerras de la India Oriental y sus Islas . . . y la introduccion del comercio Portugues en las Malucas. Title in red and black, within woodcut border. First Epirion. Small qto, full crimson levant morocco, gilt, g. e. Madrid Imprenta Imperial por la viuda de Joseph Fernandez de Buendia, 1681. £14 14s. Salva, No. 3357. Palau’s Manual, V, 87. This work is practically a summary, in Spanish, of Joao de Barros’ Decades of India, and other histories of the Portuguese in the Far East, from the time of the Infante Henry; the Navigator to Philip III. There are chapters on Portuguese commerce in the Moluccas, and a description of the Indian and African coasts, the natural history, and customs of the people, the discovery of New Guinea, and particulars concerning Japan, Ceylon, Malacca, etc. THE EARLIEST ACCOUNT OF CEYLON IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 1681 A.D. [536] KNOX (Robert). An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, in the East Indies: together, with an account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and divers other Englishmen now living there, and of the Author’s Miraculous Escape. By Robert Knox, a Captive there near Twenty Years. Engraved folding map of Ceylon and 15 engraved plates. First Epirion. Folio, original calf. London, Richard Chiswell, 1681. £8 8s. Robert Knox was a Scotch commander in the East-India Company’s Service. In 1657 he sailed with his father to Fort George, and on the return journey was forced by a storm into the harbour of Cottiar Bay, Ceylon, where he, his father, and fourteen others were made prisoners and carried into the interior. He re- mained a prisoner at large for nearly twenty years, travelling about as a hawker, when a chance came of getting’ away, and he escaped to the Dutch Settlement of Aripo on the N.-W. Coast, was sent to Batavia and thence to England, where he wrote an account of his adventures. He afterwards had a very successful career in the East India Company’s Service. ‘‘ His book, which is both delightful and trustworthy, is the first account of Ceylon in the English language.”’](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31663862_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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