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Julian MacKenzie

Julian MacKenzie

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION

Julian heads our Travel & Exploration department. He has been in the rare book trade for over 40 years, and his knowledge of rare books expands well beyond works on Travel and Exploration. When not working he is a keen practitioner of Chinese martial arts and is a part-time instructor in Tai-Chi. His other favourite pastime is walking his dog. He holds a law degree from Cambridge University.

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110318
POCOCKE, R.

A description of the East and some other countries [bound with]

Inscriptionum antiquarum Graec. et Latin.

Stock Code 110318

London, 1743-1745 & 1752..

One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. 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).

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