FRYER, John (d.1733). A New Account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters. Being nine years travels, begun 1672. And finished 1681. London: R.R. for Ri. Chiswell, 1698. 2 (308 x 193mm). Title in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White, 5 plates (3 folding), 3 maps (one printed full-page on the verso of I2 with letterpress key pasted beneath). (Occasional browning, paper-fault tear to H2, small hole in P3 affecting a few characters, ZZ1 with repaired tear to lower blank margin.) Contemporary panelled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Stonor (armorial bookplate).

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FRYER, John (d.1733). A New Account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters. Being nine years travels, begun 1672. And finished 1681. London: R.R. for Ri. Chiswell, 1698. 2 (308 x 193mm). Title in red and black. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author by R. White, 5 plates (3 folding), 3 maps (one printed full-page on the verso of I2 with letterpress key pasted beneath). (Occasional browning, paper-fault tear to H2, small hole in P3 affecting a few characters, ZZ1 with repaired tear to lower blank margin.) Contemporary panelled calf (neatly rebacked). Provenance: Stonor (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION of this account of the travels of John Fryer, a surgeon in the East India Company. The work includes a description of the author's time in Persia (in 1677-1678) when he visited Isphahan and the southern parts of the country. Wing F-2257.