A Voyage to Surat [Suratt] in the Year 1689 by JOHN OVINGTON in Dust Jacket - British - East India Company - Bombay - Travel

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Title: A Voyage to Surat [Suratt] in the Year 1689

Author: J. [John] Ovington; (edited by ) H. G. Rawlinson

Description: Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-libris bookplate for Adah Margaret Ewing on front paste-down. Light blemish to tips of bottom board corners. Dust jacket shows some damp stains (at tail of spine and fore-edges) and is chipped at head of spine and at corners. DJ in archival sleeve. Six illustrated plates including frontispiece. Index. xx, 313 pp. 7.5 x 5 inches.

John Ovington's detailed account of Western India, as he saw it at the close of the seventeenth century. Oxford's verbatim edition of the original 1696 issue, except for the correction of a number of obvious printer's errors.

In April 1689, Ovington set sail aboard an East India Company ship, filling the position of chaplain for the company. He gives an account of the sea journey, with observations of stops in Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, the island of Annobon (Equatorial Guinea ), Malemba, Saint Helena, and after rounding the Cape and escaping shipwreck off of Madagascar, the island of Johanna (Comoro Islands). In May 1690, he reaches the harbor of Bombay and is stranded there for a gloomy three months before setting sail for Surat. From his two-and-a-half years at Surat he provides an account of the English factory there and gives descriptions of character and way of life of the indigenous population, primarily merchant class Hindus, Moors (Muslims), Fakirs, and Parsis.

The previous owner was Adah Margaret Ewing, the book department manager and book buyer for Portland's J. K. Gill Company between 1904 and 1945. In 1927, she was the vice-president of the American Book Sellers Association.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Good+

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place: London
Year: 1929

Keywords: Adah Margaret Ewing, Suratt, India, Bombay, Gujarat, English colony, English colonies, sea voyages, travel, travelogue, seventeenth century, 17th century, East India Company,

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