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NIEBURHR, Carsten (1733-1815). Travels through Arabia, and other Countries in the East, translated and edited by Robert Heron, Edinburgh: R. Morison, 1792. 2 volumes, 8° (206 x 122mm). Half titles, 3 folding engraved maps and 10 plates. (Some mainly light spotting and browning throughout.) 19th-century brown half morocco gilt (later marbled paper on boards, one corner eroded, extremities rubbed). Provenance: John E. Davis (ex-libris sticker).
With 17 other works, mostly of related interest, in 20 volumes including Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend (Esslingen, 1844, hand-coloured plates), Joseph Wolff's Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara ... fourth edition (London, 1846), William Gifford Palgrave's Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (London, 1865, 2 vols., the second vol. a second edition) and Aurel Stein's Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan ... Cheaper Edition (London, 1904). (22)
With 17 other works, mostly of related interest, in 20 volumes including Bilder zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für die Jugend (Esslingen, 1844, hand-coloured plates), Joseph Wolff's Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara ... fourth edition (London, 1846), William Gifford Palgrave's Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (London, 1865, 2 vols., the second vol. a second edition) and Aurel Stein's Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan ... Cheaper Edition (London, 1904). (22)
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