Author:Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
(1605–1689)

French traveler to India and Persia. Purchased and sold the Tavernier Blue diamond Louis XIV, which later became the Hope Diamond.

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Works[edit]

  • Nouvelle Relation De l’intéreur Du Sérail Du Grand Seigneur Contenant Plusieurs Singularitex Qui Jusqu’icy N’ont Point esté mises En Lumiere. Chez Gervais Clouzier, 1st ed. Paris, 7 February 1675.
  • Les Six Voyages de Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Ecuyer, Baron d’Aubonne, en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes. Chez Olivier de. Varennes, 1st ed. Paris 1675.
  • A New Relation Of The Inner-Part of The Grand Seignor’s Seraglio, Containing Several Remarkable Particulars, Never Before Expos’d To Public View bound with (p.99) A Short Description of all the Kingdoms Which Encompas the Euxine and Caspian Seas, Delivered by the author after Twenty Years Travel Together with a Preface Containing Several Remarkable Observations concerning divers of the forementioned countries. 1st English Edition, R. L. and Moses Pitt, 1677.
  • The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier: Baron of Aubonne, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, tr. John Phillips. William Godbid, for Robert Littlebury at the King's Arms in Little Britain, and Moses Pitt at the Angel in St Paul's Church-yard., 1677. This early edition is at the United States Geological Survey Library, and was formerly owned by George Frederick Kunz and Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey. (transcription project)
  • Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier,(tr. from the 1676 French Ed. by Valentine Ball) (1899). 2 Vols. MacMillan and Co., London, 1889, (Vol. 1). Macmillan & Co., London.
  • Travels in India translated V. Ball, second ed. (Ball is considered to be 1st Ed.) edited William Crooke, in 2 vols. Tavernier’s Travels in India, 2 vols. Oxford University Press, 1925. (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Works about Tavernier[edit]

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