Beschreibung des Morgenlandesund einiger anderer lander

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 297

POCOCKE, RICHARD

Beschreibung des Morgenlandesund einiger anderer lander

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Three volumes. Numerous plates, maps and plans Ex-library, foxed. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, hinges weak, rubbed. 4to

Erlangen: 1754-5

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $200

Described by Gibbon as of “superior learning and dignity,” this work resulted from the author’s experiences in Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor and Greece between 1737 and 1740