Lot 2909: POCOCKE, EDWARD (1604-1691).

THE THEOLOGICAL WORKS... WITH THE ADDITION OF A NEW GENERAL INDEX TO THE COMMENTARIES... BY LEONARD TWELLS. LONDON: FOR THE EDITOR, SOLD BY R. GOSLING, 1740

2 volumes, folio (351 x 223mm.), [4], iv, [4 (list of subscribers)], 84, viii, 9-283, [13], xi, [1], 363, [1]; [8], 755, [13]pp., parallel Latin and Hebrew text in volume 1, illustration: engraved portrait by F. Morellon La Cave after W. Greene, engraved table of semipedes on 9G2 verso (volume 2), binding: contemporary speckled calf, spines gilt in compartments, bindings slightly rubbed

NOTE

The theological works of the great orientalist Edward Pococke include Porta Mosis, Pococke's commentary on the six prefatory sections of Maimonides' commentary on the Mishna. There is also a series of commentaries on the minor prophets which were originally published between 1677 and 1691, and the life of Pococke by Twells.