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On Egypt and the Near East in the first Dutch translation

POCOCKE, Richard.
Beschryving van het Oosten, en van eenige andere landen. Uit het Engelsch overgezet en met aantekeningen voorzien, door Ernst Willem Cramer.

With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.

With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.

With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.

With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.

With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.



Utrecht, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, G.T. en A. van Paddenburg, J. Bosch and R. Arrenberg, and M. de Bruyn, 1776-1786. 3 parts in 6 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines with 5 raised bands gilt ruled with green morocco title labels lettered in gold. With 205 folding engraved maps, plans, views and plates of temples, antiquities, plants, animals, etc.

First and only edition of this Dutch adapted and enlarged translation of the celebrated work by Richard Pococke (1704-1765) on Egypt and the Near East: Description of the East and some other countries . 2 vols. (London, 1743-45). The work is an extensive description of Pococke's travels to Egypt (Part I, 1-2), Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cypres, Crete, and the Greek archipelago (Paert II, 1-2), and the Near East, Tracia and Greece (Part III, 1-2).
The Dutch edition is a free translation with many additional observations and at the end is extra added the "Verhandelingen over de reize der Israëlieten in de woestijn" by the Amsterdam minister and writer on biblical antiquities Rutger Schutte (1708-1784). Also the plates are newly made with Dutch captions and only freely based upon the english originals. The number of plates is enlarged from the original 178 to 205. The maps in the present edition were engraved by O. Lindeman, and the plates by J. van Hiltrop, H. van Gimnig, and others.
Richard Pococke was a traveller who started his career as vicar-general of the dioceses Waterford and Lismore. From 1733 till 1736 he traveled in France, Italy and other parts of Europe. Imbued with a passion for travel he planned a visit to the Near East. In 1737 he arrived in Egypt where he visited remote places as Thebe, Memphis, Dendereh and Philae. He next visited Jerusalem in 1738 and bathed in the Dead Sea. He travelled in northern Palestine and explored Balbec. He also visited Cyprus, Candia, parts of Asia Minor and Greece. On his way back he searched the Mer the Glace in the valley near Chamonix in 1741. An account of this expedition appeared in 1743, and Pococke came to be regarded as the pioneer of Alpine travel. Back in England Pococke resumed his ecclesiastical career. In 1756 he was appointed to the bishopric of Ossory. Pococke's work on the Near East was also translated into German, and into the French.

Very fine uniformly bound uncut large paper set.
Cox I, p. 224; Tiele, Bibl. 869; cf. Blackmer 1323 (English ed.); DNB XXXXVI, pp. 12-14.

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  Egypt  Greece  Middle East  Ottoman Empire  Syria  Travel & Voyages 

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