Author: Pococke, Richard.
Title: A Description of the East, and some other countries.
Description: London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bowyer and Sold By J. and P. Knapton, 1743-1745. 0. Hardcover. Large folio. Two parts in three volumes. Volume II is in two parts, with separate title-pages, pagination and register, and imprint reading: printed for the author, by W. Bowyer. 1745. Contemporary calf, rebacked. With engraved vignettes on titles, engraved dedication in volume II and 178 numbered plates, complete (volume 1 contains 75 plates, numbers 1-32 and 34-76 (plate 33 was never issued), plate 76 is not called for in the list of plates but is referred to in the text; volume II contains 103 engraved plates, a few folding, for a total of 179 plates. Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323; Cobham-Jeffery p.51; Hilmy II, p.124; Weber II, 513; Brunet IV, 750; Tobler pp. 127-128; ESTC T31684; Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3106; Maslen and Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 3253. Good.

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