Niebuhr, Carsten
Travels in Arabia
£530
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
and Other Countries in the East. Translated into English by Robert Heron. With Notes by the Translator. Edinburgh: for R. Morison and Son, booksellers, Perth, 1792. First edition in English, 2 volumes, 8vo, xx 454 [2], xii 439 pp., contemporary tree calf, 10 engraved plates, 3 engraved folding maps, errata leaf to rear of volume 1, contemporary ownership inscriptions to title-pages, spine-labels perished, joints cracked, volume 1 front board detached, half-titles discarded, ‘The Red Sea or Arabic Gulph' map split into two sections, volume 2 with worming to foot of prelims and last few leaves with small related worm-tracks to ‘Map of the Greater Part of the Province of Yemen’ and ‘Chart of the Persian Gulph’, these respectively also with short closed handling tear and section of loss at lower outer corner (affecting inland Oman) [Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 1700] (2)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
Footnote
First published in German in Copenhagen between 1774 and 1778, as Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien.