A New Account of East India and Persia; Being Nine Years' Travels 1672-1681

1909

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Year of publication

1909

Place of printing

London. Hakluyt Society

Author

Fryer, John, Edited With Notes And Introduction By William Crook, E

Edition

First edition thus, after the original 1698 edition.

Keyword

Travel - Asia

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; 3 volumes, xxxviii, [i], 353, 35 [Hakluyt Society catalogue]; [vi], 371; viii, 271 pp, frontis (port), plates including folding with tissue guards, maps, several maps in text, tables, index. original blue cloth with gilt vignette on front covers, gilt spine title lettering, decorated in blind, lightly rubbed at edges but a clean and fine set, partly unopened. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. National Maritime Museum Catalogue 432. Cox i, 280: 'Fryer was a surgeon in the service of the East India Company for nine years and traveled extensively on the Coromandel and Malabar coasts. He describes well the cities of Surat and Bombay, the life and trade there as well as at Madras.' 'His book is of great value in its account of the struggle of the Mahrattas under Sivaaji to resist absorption into the Aurangzib's empire and in its analysis of the political state of the kingdom of Bijapur' (Oaten, Early Travelers in India).