Author: POCOCKE, RICHARD. Cramerus, Ernst Willem & Rutger Schutte.
Title: Beschryving van het Oosten en van eenige andere landen, door den heer Richard Pococke. [&] Verhandelingen over de reize der Israëlieten in de woestijne, en eenige bijzonderheden van Jerusalem en deszelfs omtrek.
Description: Utrecht, Rotterdam & Amsterdam; van Paddenburg, Arrenberg & de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 4 vols. in 6 bindings. xxxvi,219;vii,223-491;xi,262;viii,268-519;viii,262;viii,267-403,(iv),115,124 pp. 206 folded copper engraved plates (including 26 maps). Original raised & gilt-tooled half calf over speckled marbled boards. - Spines very slightly scuffed & minimally worn along the hinges; owner's entry in ink on first free endpapers; map in the final volume slightly soiled along the extremities of the margins; overall an attractive copy of this set.* Complete with all published plates (plate XXXIII in volume one was never published, thus not present in any existant copy, plate XXXI added extra). Important travel-description by Richard Pococke (1704-1765) Between 1733 and 1741 he undertook two Grand Tours with his cousin, Jeremiah Milles. The first (1733-34) was to France and Italy and the second (1737) was to various European countries, then again Italy. Milles was recalled in 1737 to attend his uncle, the Bishop of Waterford & Lismore, leaving Pococke to continue his major excursion to the Middle East. He returned via Italy in 1741, visiting the Alps on his way back to England by 1742. He was considered one of the first Alpine travellers. Detailed accounts of his travels survive in a collection of letters written to Pococke's mother and their mutual uncle, the Bishop, as well as in a number of note-books (British Library, Add. Ms. 19939, 15779, 22998, etc.). The earlier manuscripts, recently edited and published by Rachel Finnegan,[5] include probably the most detailed description of Venice's Marriage to the Sea ceremony as well as precious information on contemporary music, especially opera. From 1737-41 he visited the Middle East,[3] visiting Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon & Syria, Asia Minor and Greece. These travels were later published in his Description of the East of 1743 and 1745, works which were praised by Edward Gibbon. Among other things, he was one of the European travellers to give an account of the origins of the medieval Arabic document, the Achtiname of Muhammad, which claims that Muhammad had personally confirmed a grant of protection and other privileges to the monks of Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

Keywords: Archaeology Egypt Archeologie Egypte ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / ?Stelling Achter Toonbank / III