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 those countries illustrated with maps, figures and useful tables. By John Fryer. Published by Ri[chard] Chiswell 1733. With a total of nine engraved plates, including the engraved frontispiece, four engraved plates, three of which are double page, one small folding plan, and three engraved map plates (one of which is page 60 with the printed key over-slip). Numerous other engravings in the text. Title-page in red and black. On 9 December 1672 Fryer left from Gravesend for a lengthy tour of India and Persia undertaken in the interests of the East India Company. He did not return to England until August 1682. Sixteen years later he published this book started in 1672, which he had been prompted to write in the wake of criticism of English expeditions in French guides. A book rich in details of natural history and local medical practice.
A new account of East-India and Persia
