Carsten Niebuhr: Beschreibung von Arabien. Copenhagen: Nicolaus Möller 1772.
30^II,-247

The binding	Title page	Plate 16 between pp. 214 and 215: Military training in Yemen	P. 237: Text example. On Yemen

Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) took part as a cartographer in the great Arabian Journey, which left Copenhagen in 1761, sent out by King Frederik V. It was a scientific expedition with the purpose of gathering cartographic, linguistic, and natural history material. The primary goal was Yemen – Arabia felix. The other members – F.C. von Haven, P. Forsskål, C.C. Kramer, G.W. Baurenfeind, and Berggren – all died on the journey, and in 1767 Niebuhr returned home as the sole survivor. Five years later, in 1772, he published his answers to some of the questions that the expedition had been sent out to investigate, in Beschreibung von Arabien, a major work in 18th century orientalistics characterized by the author’s matter-of-fact observations. The work was soon translated into Dutch and French.
This copy is bound in brown leather with decorations in gold on the spine.

29 x 22 cm.

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