Digital Rare Book :
A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.
By John Fryer
Published by R. Chiswell, London - 1698

“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 Sivaji to resist absorption into Aurangzib’s empire, and in its analysis of the political state of the kingdom of Bijapur… He was well versed in the learning of the day and very curious in all questions connected with natural science” (Cox I, 280). “His account of the places he visited is accurate and reliable, with numerous anecdotes told with a fine sense of humor” (Howgego, 406). “Contains many curious particulars respecting the natural history and medicine of these countries” (Lowndes, 844). Included are maps of India and Persia and natural history plates, as well as a discourse on precious stones, tortoise-shell and ivory.