Beschreibung von Arabien. Aus eigenen Beobachtungen und im Lande selbst gesammleten Nachrichten

by Yemen, Carsten Niebuhr

$3,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. Engraved vignettes to title page and dedication. With 24 engraved plates some folding, including two Kufic facsimiles with hand-colored diacritical marks and initials ; and a large folding map of Yemen, colored in outline. Genealogical table folding at p. 194. xlvii, 3 , 431, 1, errata pp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary quarter vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Early owner signature of Andreas Narr, struck out by Henricus Walther, 1829.

• Binding: Leather

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