A voyage to Suratt, in the year, 1689. Giving a large account of that city and its inhabitants, and of the English factory there. Likewise a description of Madeira, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda, and Malemba (upon the coast of Africa) St. Helena, Johanna, Bombay, the city of Muscatt, and its inhabitants in Arabia Felix, Mocha, and other maritine [sic] towns upon the Red-Sea, the Cape of Good Hope, and the island Ascention. To which is added an appendix, containing I. The history of a late revolution in the Kingdom of Golconda. II. A description of the Kingdoms of Arracan and Pegu. III. An account of the coins of the Kingdoms of India, Persia, Golconda, &c. IV. Observations concerning the silk-worms. By J. Ovington, M.A. Chaplain to his Majesty.
John Ovington (1653-1731)
Category
Books
Date
1696
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3214893
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],606p., [3] folding plates : ill., tables ; 8vo. Imperfect; damage to plates. Provenance: Eighteenth-century early armorial bookplate of Richard Banner, with motto: "Nil sine numine" F1380/81 [i.e. Richard Banner (b. 1696), sold library from Little Aston Hall to Thomas Anson in about 1745]. Top corner of fly leaf cut out removing inscription. Binding: seventeenth or early eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; triple blind fillet border, with cornerpieces; sewn onto four raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine label mostly missing.
Makers and roles
John Ovington (1653-1731)