Author: Fraser, James B.
Title: TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN THE PERSIAN PROVINCES On the Southern Banks of the Caspian Sea. With An Appendix, Containing Short Notices on the Geology and Commerce of Persia.
Description: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green ..., 1826. 1st Ed. 4to. viii + 384pp. Some browning, rebound in modern C20th half calf with marbled boards, ¶ James Baillie Fraser (1783–1856) Scottish travel writer, and artist who illustrated and wrote about Asia Minor and India. Fraser accompanied the East India Company officer Andrew Jukes to Persia, sailing to Bushahr then on to Tehran, and finally reaching London in 1823. Jukes died on the way at Esfahan in 1821. During this journey Fraser sketched and kept a diary, published as Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan in the Years 1821 and 1822 (1825) and [the above].

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