A true and exact description of the most celebrated East-India coasts of Malabar and Coromandel
Subtitle: as also of the isle of Ceylon; with all the adjacent kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, chief harbours, structures, pagan temples, products, and living creatures: the manners, habits oeconomies and ceremonies of the inhabitants. As likewise the most remarkable warlike exploits, sieges, seaand field-engagements betwixt the Portuguese and Dutch; with their traffick and commerce. The whole adorned with new maps and draughts of the chief cities, forts, habits, living creatures, fruits, &c . of the product of the Indies, drawn to the life, and cut in copper plates. Also a most circumstantial and compleat account of the idolatry of the pagans in the East Indies, the Malabars, Benjans, Gentives, Brahmans, &c. Taken partly from their own Vedam, or law-book, and authentick manuscripts ...with the draughts of their idols, done after their originals
By: By Philip Baldaeus ... Translated fr om the High Dutch, printed at Amsterdam 1672
Contributors: Churchill, Awnsham
Publisher: Printed for A. and J. Churchill
Published: 1703
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 901
Subjects: Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Religion
Notes: Added title-page, engraved: "A description of èy East India coasts ... " with 1703 imprint.

In double columns.

Detached from Churchill, Awnsham, ed. A collection of voyages and travels ... London, 1704(?) v. III.

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