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AUCTION 73 |
Thursday, June 22nd,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 234
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Amsterdam & Utrecht: S. J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven 1774
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) writings on the ill-fated Danish scientific expedition to Arabia, during which all but one of the participants died.
Johann Michaelis (1717-91), the most celebrated Orientalist of his day and passionate proponent of the study of Hebrew antiquities. It was to him that Niebuhr turned for a list of subjects to be investigated and questions to be answered. The second volume bound in here is a collection of these scholars’ questions and discussions.