Francois Valentijn's Description of Ceyl
✍ Francois Valentijn
📂 Library
📅 1977
🏛 The Hakluyt Society
🌐 English
<p>François Valentijn's Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Old and New East Indies) has for long been regarded as a primary source of information on a number of regions of maritime Asia. It is a veritable encyclopaedia, bringing together an array of facts, trivial and vital, from a wide range of contemporary