Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A Description of the East, and Some other Countries. London: for the Author, by Bowyer, 1743. Folio, volume one only of two, with engraved vignette on title and dedication leaf, illustrated with seventy-five plates, including maps, full page and folding plates; in contemporary boards, with the bookplate of Dr. D.H. Nutting pasted inside the front board, the doctor's bookplate is printed in English and Arabic, he and his family were living in Aleppo, Syria, in the 1820s; front board detached, sewing structure cracked along the spine, water damage to text and binding, 16 1/4 x 10 in.
Pococke, Richard (1704-1765) A Description of the East, and Some other Countries. London: for the Author, by Bowyer, 1743. Folio, volume one only of two, with engraved vignette on title and dedication leaf, illustrated with seventy-five plates, including maps, full page and folding plates; in contemporary boards, with the bookplate of Dr. D.H. Nutting pasted inside the front board, the doctor's bookplate is printed in English and Arabic, he and his family were living in Aleppo, Syria, in the 1820s; front board detached, sewing structure cracked along the spine, water damage to text and binding, 16 1/4 x 10 in.
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