- 3155
Fryer, John (d. 1733).
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description
- A new account of East-India and Persia, in eight letters. London: R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, 1698
folio (312 x 189mm.), [10], xiii, [1], 427, [1], xxiv pp., title-page printed in red and black, illustration: engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 engraved maps, 5 engraved plates (3 folding), engraved and woodcut text illustrations, binding: contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, brown morocco lettering-piece, worming to upper margins of many leaves, small rust hole in F3 affecting a few letters, tears to some leaves with loss (not affecting text), light creasing to a few leaves, spotting
Literature
Wing F2257; Ghani, pp.144-145; Wilson p.76
Catalogue Note
Fryer was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company. Having left England in December 1672, he was in India and Persia until 1681. His is a lively account featuring details of the witches, necromancers, eunuchs, strumpets, drunk fakirs, giant frogs and suicidal fowls he encounters.