A New Account of East-India And Persia In Eight Letters Being Nine Years Travels Begun 1672 And Finished 1681. Containing observations made of the moral, natural, and artificial estate of the whole countries: namely of their government, religion, laws,.

Fryer, John.

Verlag: R. R. for Richard Chiswell, London, 1698

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[1 dedication page], Blank, [3], Blank, XIII, [ 1 Errata], 427 pp. + XXIV (1, index), lacking engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red & black, 2 engraved plates & 2 maps, (of 8 plates & maps), full page engraved map illustration (with printed slip caption beneath) several woodcut illustrations, some tonal browning & spotting, blindstamps on title an plates. John Fryer was an English doctor and traveller. He studied medicine at Cambridge, and was employed by the East India Company for nine years. On December 1672 he embarked on a lengthy tour to India, Goa, the Arab Gulf and Persia, not returning to England until in August 1682. Fryer arrived at Muscat in March 1676; he had left Surat for Hormuz abroad the merchant ship Scipio African. The ship was forced to return to Muscat due to monsoon winds. Fryer gives detailed account of both Surat and Muscat. He talks about the pirates in the Gulf, the tropical birds, the Imam of Muscat, the British trade in the area and the locust. The plates include botanical and palms with fruit and topographical views. A Dutch version appeared in The Hague, 1700. This is the First edition. Bibliographical references: [Wing F 2257. Ghani, 144-145. Xavier Beguin Billecocq, Oman, pp. 118-119. Cix 1, 280. Cox 1 p. 220; Wilson p. 76; Wing F2257]. #17063. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 011507

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Titel: A New Account of East-India And Persia In ...

Verlag: R. R. for Richard Chiswell, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1698

Einband: Hardcover

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