Second edition in English (after the first, Edinburgh and Perth, 1792) abridged and translated from Niebuhr’s Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Laendern (1774) and…
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Second edition in English (after the first, Edinburgh and Perth, 1792) abridged and translated from Niebuhr’s Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Laendern (1774) and volume two from Niebuhr’s Beschreibung von Arabien (1772). It recounts Niebuhr’s travels in the Middle East, Egypt, Persia, India and Arabia, the first scientific expedition to this area which was subsidised by the Danish king. The plates depict: An Arab on horseback; Dancing girls in Egypt; Procession at an Egyptian marriage; The way to Mount Sinai; Mount Sinai and the Convent of St. Catherine; Dress of the women in the back parts of Yemen and Scene in Arabia Petrea. Howgego, to 1800, N24
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