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Carsten Niebuhr (b. Lüdingworth 1733, d. Holsten 1815)

Carsten Niebuhr: Description de L'Arabie. Cph 1773. 4to. With engraved title vignette, 24 engravings and one folded map. Brown spot throughout in lower part of centre. Map repaired on verso. Bound in cont. full calf, spine detached.

Niebuhr was the sole survivor of a party of five specialists dispatched by King Frederick V of Denmark on this scientific expedition. They visited Sinai, then moved south to Mokha, and by ship to Bombay from where Niebuhr travelled alone to Muscat, Shiraz, Persepolis and Bagdad. The work contains illustrations of costumes, musical instruments and monuments.

Provenance: Book Collector and Doctor of Medicine Torben Schiødt (1926–2009).

Auction

Books and manuscripts, 12 December 2017

16 bids

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