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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
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20181126114234.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS411. |
| Item number |
F794 1985 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fryer, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
-1733. |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A new account of East India and Persia in eight letters : |
| Remainder of title |
being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681 / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
by John Fryer. |
| 250 1# - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Indian reprint. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
R.R. for Ri. Chiswell, at the Role and Crown, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
[1985]. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 427, xxiv pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
30 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Cover title. |
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| General note |
“John Fryer (circa 1650-1733) was a British traveler and writer. After studying medicine at Cambridge University, he went to India, where he first worked as a surgeon in the employ of the East India Company, with which his family most likely had some kind of connection. He left England in December 1672 and did not return until August 1682. A New Account of East India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681 is Fryer’s account of the time he spent in the East. The book is organized in eight letters, most of which are further divided into chapters. Letter one covers the passage to India. Letters two, three, and four recount Fryer’s time in India. Letter five, by far the longest in the book, is an account of his time in Persia, with detailed descriptions of the Safavid capital of Isfahan, Shiraz, and the ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis. Letter six covers Fryer’s return to India and his stay in the cities of Bharuch, Baharampur, and Surat in present-day western India. Letter seven consists of “General Occurrences and Remarks”; letter eight covers the trip back to England via the Cape of Good Hope and Ascension Island, Saint Helena, and the Azores. The book is rich in details of natural history and is particularly valuable as an account of how medicine was practiced in Persia and India, reflecting Fryer’s training as a physician. Fryer’s writings are known for his lively curiosity and his observations in geology, meteorology, and other scientific fields. He also describes the lives and customs of the minority peoples of Persia, including the Gabrs (Zoroastrians), Armenians, Georgians, and Jews, and offers insights into the activities of rival European powers—the Portuguese, Dutch, and French—in the countries he visited”—copied from website. |
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| General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 600 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fryer, John, -1733. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
India – Description and travel – Early works to 1800. |
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| Geographic name |
Iran – Description and travel – Early works to 1800. |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Electronic format type |
PDF |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds411_f794_1985">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds411_f794_1985</a> |
| Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Monograph |
| Call number prefix |
azu_acku_ds411_f794_1985 |