A Supplement to a Book Entitled Travels, or Observations, &cc. Wherein Some Objections Lately Made Against it are Fully Considered and Answered. With Several Additional Remarks and Dissertations.

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Lot 340
SHAW, THOMAS.

A Supplement to a Book Entitled Travels, or Observations, &cc. Wherein Some Objections Lately Made Against it are Fully Considered and Answered. With Several Additional Remarks and Dissertations.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two engraved folding plates. pp. xvi, 112. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, gilt, rubbed. Folio. Blackmer Catalogue 307.

Oxford: Printed at the Theatre 1746

Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $450
The Supplement appeared as a reply to adverse criticism and objections made by Richard Pococke in his “Description of the East” (1743-45.)