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POCOCKE, R.
Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door E.W. Cramer.

Utrecht Rotterdam Amsterdam, 1776-1786, 6 parts in 3 vols. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With 205 engraved folding maps, views and plates. XXXVI, 491; XII, 512; VIII, 403, 116, 124 pp.

Dutch adaptation of the celebrated work by Richard Pococke, "Description of the East", first published in London, 1743-1745. The work extensively treats on Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Crete, and the Greek archipelago. The Dutch edition is a free translation with additional observations and at the end is extra added: "Verhandelingen over de reize der Israëlieten in de woestijn" by R. Schutte. Also the plates are newly made and only freely based upon the English original, and the number of plates is enlarged from the original 178 to 205 and include plates in Drummond and Dapper. The plates here are numbered in 2 series, 1-77 for the part on Egypt, and 1-103 for the rest of the Near-East, but both series have several extra plates with a sub-number. The maps in the present edition were made by O. Lindeman, and the plates by J. van Hiltrop, H. van Gimnig, etc. Pococke's work was also translated into German, and French.

 
 
Examples:
 

Jefferys's Crete.
Lindeman's Crete.
Jefferys's Cyprus.
Lindeman's Cyprus 
 
The above edition is offered for sale complete and unbroken. In the meantime I'll be scanning and listing all the plates of Greek and Cypriot interest before this edition finds a new owner.
 
Price: CyP. 2,000
 
 
'The Cypriots are not the most subtle and artful people in all the Levant , nor have they more veracity than their neighbours , so that their words are not to be depended upon , as they make use of all means to deceive . The women are little superior to their ancestors with regard to their virtue ; and as they go unveiled , so they expose themselves in a manner that in these parts is looked on as very indecent . They go every Whit Sunday in procession to the sea in remembrance of Venus's coming out of it , which was anciently attended with some other circumstances .'  So, wrote Pococke of Cypriots when he visited the Island in 1738. Fysica pellos pou ton erwtisen.

Cyprus. Click Here
 
Crete. Click Here
 
Aegean Archipelago. Click Here
 
Greece. Click Here
 
Thrace/Constantinople Click Here
 
Asia Minor. Click Here
Egypt. Click Here
 
Palestine. Click Here
 
Syria , The Lebanon  Click Here
& Mesopotamia.
 
Flora of the East. Click Here
 
Southern Europe. Click Here
 
Miscellaneous. Click Here