Beschreibung des Morgenlandesund einiger anderer lander

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $200

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

POCOCKE, RICHARD

Place

Erlangen

Publication

1754-5

Description

FIRST GERMAN EDITION. Three volumes. Numerous plates, maps and plans

references

cf. Blackmer 1323; Rohricht 1396; Tobler pp.127-8

summary

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

Ex-library, foxed. Contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt, hinges weak, rubbed. 4to

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