Author: FRANKLIN, WILLIAM:
Title: Resa ifrån Bengalen til Persien åren 1786 och 1787 samt en korrt historia om Persien sedan år 1747. Götheborg, Samuel Norberg, 1798.
Description: . Pp. iv, 172. Uncut copy in modern half calf, spine lettered in gilt. Bookplate. A scarce Swedish edition translated from the German version edited by J.R. Forster. William Franklin (1763-1839) was an English captain in the service of the East India company. He travelled to Persia in 1786 and stayed for eight months at Shiraz as an inmate of a Persian family. Cf Diba p. 150 (First English edition 1790). Cf Schwab no.193.

Keywords: Near East, bengal, india, indian, persia, persien, persian, bengalen, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, travel, exploration,


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