Carsten Niebuhr (b. Lüdingworth 1733, d. Holsten 1815)
Carsten Niebuhr: Beschreibung von Arabien. Aus eigenen Beobachtungen [...]. Cph. 1772. 1st ed. 4to. Complete with engraved title vignette, map hand-coloured in outline (Terræ Yemen) and 24 engraved plates (6 charts, 2 hand-coloured, many folded). Size of map: 40×59 cm. Nice wide margins. With minor foxing and soiling. Flyleaf and inner endpaper annotated. Bound in cont. full calf binding, label on spine with gilt lettering.
Complete 1st edition of Niebuhr's famous classical account of his Arabian travel, being the first scientific expedition to Arabia Felix. With the famous map of Yemen and the large folded map of the Arab Gulf “Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus”.
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Paintings & books, 19 September 2017