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TERRY (EDWARD)
A Voyage to East-India. Wherein Some Things Are Taken Notice of in our Passage Thither, but Many More in our Abode There, within the Rich and Most Spacious Empire of the Great Mogol

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
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TERRY (EDWARD)

A Voyage to East-India. Wherein Some Things Are Taken Notice of in our Passage Thither, but Many More in our Abode There, within the Rich and Most Spacious Empire of the Great Mogol, engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 folding engraved plates, one folding engraved map (short tear repaired, 2 ink spots), browning, contemporary calf, rebacked and refurbished by Zaehnsdorf [Wing T782], 8vo, J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1655

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Edward Terry travelled to India with the East India Company in 1616, spending over three years there. He was engaged as chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe at Madhya Pradesh, whereupon he followed the court of the emperor Jahangiras it moved to first Mandu, then Ahmadabad. He compiled his "historically valuable account of the entire Mughal dominions and their varied inhabitants" (ODNB). His account was first published in an edited version in the 1625 edition of Purchas his Pilgrimes, this 1655 edition being greatly expanded by the author. This edition includes a version of the important map of "East India Conteyning the Empire of the Great Mogoll" drawn by William Baffin from information accumulated by Roe, whose sources included Terry. See illustration on preceding page.

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