Pococke (Richard). Inscriptionum Antiquarum Graec..., 1752
Pococke (Richard). Inscriptionum Antiquarum Graec. et Latin Liber. Accedit, Numismatum Ptolemaeorum, Imperatorum, Augustarum, et Caesarum, in Aegypto cusorum, e Scriniis Britannicis, Catalogus, [London]: Typis Mandati, 1752, half-title, title, single leaf of preface and single leaf of contents, 127 pages of text, and large engraved map of Egypt on 8 folding sheets at rear, some marginal spotting and light toning to map sheets, a few scattered marginal spots to text, contemporary full calf with 20th century plain reback, rubbed and scuffed to edges, gilt armorial to centre of each cover of George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), 1st Duke of Sutherland, folio (sheet size 46 x 28 cm)
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Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), 1st Duke of Sutherland. Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme from 1779 to 1784, and for Staffordshire from 1787 to 1799.
Richard Pococke (1704-1765), Bishop of Ossory and Meath, traveller and antiquarian, whose portrait in oriental costume was painted by the French artist Jean-Etienne Liotard in 1738 (Musée de'art et d'histoire, Geneva), is best known for his Description of the East of 1743-45.
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Pococke (Richard). Inscriptionum Antiquarum Graec. et Latin Liber. Accedit, Numismatum Ptolemaeorum, Imperatorum, Augustarum, et Caesarum, in Aegypto cusorum, e Scriniis Britannicis, Catalogus, [London]: Typis Mandati, 1752, half-title, title, single leaf of preface and single leaf of contents, 127 pages of text, and large engraved map of Egypt on 8 folding sheets at rear, some marginal spotting and light toning to map sheets, a few scattered marginal spots to text, contemporary full calf with 20th century plain reback, rubbed and scuffed to edges, gilt armorial to centre of each cover of George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), 1st Duke of Sutherland, folio (sheet size 46 x 28 cm)
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Provenance: George Granville Leveson-Gower (1758-1833), 1st Duke of Sutherland. Member of Parliament for Newcastle under Lyme from 1779 to 1784, and for Staffordshire from 1787 to 1799.
Richard Pococke (1704-1765), Bishop of Ossory and Meath, traveller and antiquarian, whose portrait in oriental costume was painted by the French artist Jean-Etienne Liotard in 1738 (Musée de'art et d'histoire, Geneva), is best known for his Description of the East of 1743-45.
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