Lot 158
  • 158

Fryer, John

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • A New Account of East-India and Persia... Being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681. London: R.R. for Ri. Chiswell, 1698
  • PAPER
FIRST EDITION, folio (312 x 190mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece (with half-title on verso), 5 plates, 3 folding, 2 maps, illustrations in text, including one full-page engraved map, contemporary calf, occasional spotting and browning, binding rubbed, old repairs to corners, rebacked

Provenance

John Wilson, Fellow & Bursar of Trinity College, Cambridge, bookplate

Literature

Ghani p.144; Wilson p.76; Wing F2257

Condition

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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Catalogue Note

''The author was a surgeon in the employ of the East India Company, and spent about a year and a half in Persia, visiting the southern parts of the country and Esfahan'' (Ghani).