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*[https://archive.org/details/voyagestravellso00olea ''The voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia. : Begun in the year M. DC. XXXIII. and finish'd in M. DC. XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching near the present times; in VII books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the Embassay) from Persia, into the East-Indies ... in III books ..''] by Adam Olearius, 1669. [https://archive.org/stream/voyagestravellso00olea#page/316/mode/2up Part 2: The Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo] page 317. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofsirjohn00char/page/n7/mode/2up ''The travels of Sir John Chardin into Persia and the East Indies Through the Black-Sea and the Country of Colchis: the first volume, containing the author's voyage from Paris to Ispahan : to which is added, the coronation of this present king of Persia, Solyman the Third''] 1686 Archive.org. (Colchis variously described as Western Caucasus, eastern shores of the Black Sea, parts of Georgia.<ref> [https://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/morrittabstracts/26mor.htm faculty.ucr.edu]</ref>). [http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31753.0001.001 Transcribed edition 1686] EEBO-TCP umich.edu. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023512011.0x000001 1691 edition with Twenty Five Copper plates] Qatar Digital Library, book from the British Library Printed Collections, ORW.1986.b.10:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.169543/page/n3/mode/2up ''Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia'']. 1927 reprint of the 1720 1724 edition ''A New and Accurate Description of Persia'', (there having been a 1720 edition with the title ''Sir John Chardin’s Travels in Persia'' translated by Edmund Lloyd), from the original French publications about travels in Persia 1669-1677, edited by N M Penzer with a "Preface", and an "Introduction" by Sir Percy Sykes. 1927 Archive.org:[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/chardin-sir-john Chardin, Sir John] Encyclopædia Iranica
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JQU5IHNH6UGILO5L3VB662KPJHNTRGDF ''A new account of East-India and Persia : : in eight letters being nine years travels, begun 1672 and finished 1681''] by John Fryer 1698 London. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.
: A later edition, edited, with notes and an introduction, by William Crooke, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service. in three volumes, printed for the Hakluyt Society, (Second Series, 2/19, 2/20 and 2/39) 1909-1915. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31952 Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31953 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.49506 Volume III]. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*''Through Asiatic Turkey. Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus'' by Grattan Geary, Editor of ''The Times of India'' 1878 [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict00geargoog ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82983 ''Volume II''] [https://archive.org/details/throughasiatict02geargoog ''Volume II'', from page 90 only, but illustrations may be better], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284626 Another file, ''Volume II''] Archive.org, including books from the Digital Library of India Collection.
*''In the Land of the Lion and Sun; or Modern Persia. Being Experiences of Life in Persia during a residence of Fifteen Years in various part of that country from 1866 to 1881'' by C J Wills, MD, late one of the Medical Officers of Her Majesty’s Telegraph Department in Persia. [https://archive.org/details/inlandoflionsun00willrich 1883 edition], [https://archive.org/details/inlandoflionsun00williala 1891 New Edition] Archive.org.
*''Six Months in Persia'' by Edward Stack, Bengal Civil Service. 1882. [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi01staciala/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsinpersi02staciala/page/n3/mode/2up Volume II]. A journey from India to England commencing January 1881. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/aridetoindiaacr01windgoog ''A ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan''] by Harry de Windt 1891 Archive.org
*''Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a Summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs'' by Mrs Bishop (Isabella L Bird) 1891. [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersia01birdiala Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/journeysinpersi00birdgoog Volume II] Archive.org
