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S. J. Baalde / J. van Schoonhoven

Amsterdam & Utrecht

1774

Carsten Niebuhr. Description de L’Arabie Faite Sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux memes. pp. xlii, 372, (13). With 25 engraved plates including 8 folding, 4 partially colored and two plates of Arabic calligraphy. Second French edition. * BOUND WITH: Johann David Michaelis. Recueil de questions, proposées à une société de savants, qui par ordre de Sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l’Arabie. pp. (4), xliv, 256, (16), 38, (14). FIRST EDITION.

Brunet IV, 74.

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.