Description de l’Arabie, : faite sur des observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux memes / par Carsten Niebuhr.
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815)
Category
Books
Date
1774
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3224279
Summary
Bibliographic description
Shelved as vol. III of Niebuhr’s travels in Arabia; uniformly bound with the other 3 vols.[3], VI-XLII, 372, [14] p. XXIV, [4] leaves of plates (11 folded). ill. maps. 4to. R.4.25 Former shelfmark: D-4-4(b) Plate XXIII has been bound in upside-down. Maps have been hand-coloured. Provenance: black ink stamp: The National Trust founded 1895. Binding: eighteenth-century polished tree calf over boards (20C reback with sky blue cloth hinges added to endpapers), 20C maroon spine labels, remains of gilt roll on covers, blind roll on board edges, red painted edges.
Makers and roles
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815)