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Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A Description of the East.
London: Printed for the author by W. Bowyer, and sold by J. & P. Knapton et alia, 1743-1745.
First edition, two profusely illustrated folio volumes with engraved vignettes on each title page; volume one illustrated with 74 of 75 plates (lacking plate 40; plate 33 omitted from the count; 5 are folding); volume two illustrated with 103 engravings (of which 6 are folding); the set bound in full contemporary uniform reversed calf tooled in blind (joints cracked, boards becoming detached, corners bumped, leather surface peeling; a few folding plates torn; occasional spots and a few short tears); ex libris Francis Drake of Magdalen College, Oxford, signed by him in 1793; signature of M. Tibbits dated 1800 to front free endleaf; armorial bookplate of Viscount Hood; 16 x 10 1/4 in. (2)
The first volume of Pococke's work is about Egypt, the second concerns itself with the Holy Land, including Palestine, Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia & Candia. Pococke began by completing the European Grand Tour in the 1730s. He toured Egypt and the Holy Land next and then wrote about his visits to Ireland and Scotland. He was also a Bishop in the Church of Ireland.
