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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier - Langerman Diamonds

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Tavernier recounts his adventures in "The Six Voyages of John Baptiste Tavernier", a superbly illustrated book first published in Paris (1676) and then in London (1678). This book contains skillful sketches of each of the stones that he sold to the Sun King. During his travels, Tavernier visited only three of the numerous ...

Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803

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Philip, J., Researches in South Africa: illustrating the civil, moral, and religious condition of the native tribes, 1 vols., London: James Duncan, 1828, reprinted in 1969 by Negro Universities Press, New York. Raven-Hart, R., Before Van ... Tavernier, J. B., The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, London, 1678. Theal ...

The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France ...

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Title: The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, a noble man of France now living, through Turky into Persia and