The voyages and travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo (A Gentleman belonging to the Embaffy, sent by the Duke of Holstein to the great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia) into the East Indies : begun in the year M.DC.XXXVIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XL, containing a particular description of the great Mogul's empire, the kingdoms of Decan, Calicuth, Cochim, Zeilon, Coromandel, Pegu, Siam, Cambodia, Malacca, Summatra, Java, Amboina, Banda, the Moluccas, Philippine, and other islands, Japan, the great kingdom of China, the Cape of Good Hope, Madagascar, &c.... in three books

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Creator: Mandelslo, Johann Albrecht von, 1616-1644
Olearius, Adam,1603-1671
Davies, John,1625-1693.

Publisher: London : Printed for J. Starkey, and and T. Baffet at the Mitre between the middle-Temple-gate and Temple-bar, and at the George near Cliffords lnng

Subject: Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Asiatic Russia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
East Indies -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Voyages and travelss -- Early works to 1800

Abstract: The full description of the voyage, edited from the papers left by the author, was published under title: Des ... Johann Albrecht von Mandelslo morgenl⁸andische Reisebeschreibung ... nach des Autoris tode aus-gegeben durch Ad. Olearium ... Schleswig, 1658.
A first short account of Mandelslo's voyage appeared under title "Schreiben von seiner ostindischen Reise au Ad. Olearius ... mit etlichen Anmerkungen Ad. Olearii" Schleswig, 1645 ; reprinted in Olearius' Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Reise ... Schleswig, 1647.