Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815) Beschreibung von Arabien

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Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815) Beschreibung von Arabien. Copenhagen: Möller, 1772.
First edition, quarto, illustrated with twenty-five engravings extraneous to the collation, all thrown out on full-page sheets and mounted as folding, the first twenty-four are numbered, and include several maps, the last is a large folding map of Yemen with hand-colored outlines; plates four and five, exhibiting different manuscript hands, are also hand-colored in red and yellow, and the plate showing Mecca has a little line of yellow on the Kaaba; in addition, a folding typographical table is bound opposite page 194; ex libris James Henry Breasted (1865-1935),the American archaeologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, and rubber stamp on the title; in contemporary boards, head and tail chipped, boards still attached, some spotting to contents, unsophisticated and still structurally sound, 10 x 7 3/4 in.
Estimate $700-900

a-f4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Hhh4.


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