<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A collection of several relations &amp; treatises singular and curious / of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, not printed among his first six voyages ...</dc:title><dc:creator>Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689</dc:creator><dc:date>1680</dc:date><dc:description>I. A new and singular relation of the kingdom of Tunquin.--II. How the Hollanders manage their affairs in Asia.--III. A relation of Japon, and the cause of the persecution of the Christians in those islands.--IV. A relation of what passed in the negotiation of the deputies which were at Persia and the Indies, for the establishment of trade.--V. Observations upon the East India trade.</dc:description><dc:description>Imperfect: 1 p.l., wanting; map of Tonkin wanting; replaced by map not belonging to this work; pt. 3, A relation of Japan is misbound in the 2nd vol. of Collections and travels.</dc:description><dc:description>In his Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East-Indies. London, 1684. v. 1.</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>