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NIEBUHR, Carsten (1733-1815). Description de l'Arabie, faite sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux mêmes. Amsterdam and Utrecht: S. J. Baalde and J. Schoonhoven & Co., 1774. Engraved title, large folding engraved general map and 24 plates and maps, 7 folding, 2 of arabic script with a little hand colouring, half title, folding printed genealogical table, errata leaf at end (short tear in folding map). [Bound with:] MICHAELIS, J. D. Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui ... font le voyage de l'Arabie ... Traduit de l'allemand. Ibid., 1774. 2 works in one volume, 4° (262 x 205mm). Contemporary tree calf gilt (rebacked, corners repaired).
Second edition in French -- the first appeared in the previous year at Copenhagen -- of Niebuhr's description of the ill-fated expedition to Arabia of which he was the only survivor, the penultimate member, the surgeon, dying shortly after the boat docked at Bombay, the ultimate destination. 'Niebuhr was an accurate and careful observer, had the instincts of the scholar, was animated by a high moral purpose, and was rigorously conscientious and anxiously truthful in recording the results of his observation. His works have long been classics on the geography, the people, the antiquities and the archaeology of much of the district of Arabia which he traversed' (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Second edition in French -- the first appeared in the previous year at Copenhagen -- of Niebuhr's description of the ill-fated expedition to Arabia of which he was the only survivor, the penultimate member, the surgeon, dying shortly after the boat docked at Bombay, the ultimate destination. 'Niebuhr was an accurate and careful observer, had the instincts of the scholar, was animated by a high moral purpose, and was rigorously conscientious and anxiously truthful in recording the results of his observation. His works have long been classics on the geography, the people, the antiquities and the archaeology of much of the district of Arabia which he traversed' (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
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