A description of the East and some other countries [bound with] Inscriptionum antiquarum Graec. et Latin.

The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Crete, the Greek islands, Asia Minor, Thrace, Greece and other parts of Europe. 'Pococke travelled extensively in Europe from 1833-6 and continued on to the Levant, reaching Alexandria in September 1737. He remained three years in the Eastern Mediterranean visiting Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor and Greece. Pococke achieved a great reputation with this publication. and was prasied by Gibbon. Pococke also published a catalogue of his numismatic finds in Egypt'. (Navari). With the distinctive gold book plate of The Spiros Loverdos Collection, desgned by the renowned Greek painter Konstantinos Parthenis for Spyridon Loverdos (1874-1936), a banker, economist and politician. His collection was inherited by his daughter Maria Kouteralli and subsequently by her son Konstantin, both of whom made additions to the Kifisia-based library. In 2023 the core of the remaining collection, containing approximately 15,000 books became part of the Laskaridis Foundation. First editions, 3 vols in 4; folio; 178 engraved plates, plans & maps (some folding); uniformly bound in mottled calf, spines gilt, some spotting and browning, spines slightly worn. Provenance: Sanderson Miller, 1716-1780, English pioneer of Gothic revival architecture and landscape designer (author's presentation inscription); Leybourn Grange (bookplates); T.A.D. Godinton (exlibris); Spiros Loverdos Library (bookplate). Atabey 965; Blackmer 1323 & 1324. …