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'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: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎7] (18/506)

The record is made up of 1 volume (427 pages). It was created in 1698. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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wherein I found a necefity, if I declined this Work., to appear
from other Hands in (print. This then was the fir ft and chief
Caufe 5 refting all that while content, that many Foreigners had
their Memoirs tranflated , whereby
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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: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.

Author: John Fryer, M D.

Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.

Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.

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1 volume (427 pages)
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The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.

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'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: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎7] (18/506), British Library: Printed Collections, W 3856, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023917455.0x000013> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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