Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern.
Vangsgaards Antikvariat
vga729297
2 volumes. Nicolaus Müller, Copenhagen 1774-78. XVI+(6)+506 (including the errata/Druckfehler); (16)+479+( blank) pages. Illustrated with 124 copper plate engravings, many folding, including maps. Five leaves in facsimile in volume I: The half title, plate II (foldable view of Marseille), plate VIII (folding view of Damiat), text leaf I2 (pp. 67/68) and single leaf plate XXXIX (Hieroglyphs). Bound in two beautiful pastiche half calf binding with five raised bands and marbled sidepaper. A few pages with thumbing, but besides that a nice, solid copy on good paper.
* The account of one of the most renowned expeditions to the Middle East. The Danish based crew of scientists, under the command of Frederik Christian von Haven,set out from Copenhagen in 1761, landed in Alexandria and travelled over Sinai to Arabia and Yemen. Sadly, the members of the expedition died one after one, and only Niebuhr survived the exhausting sojourn to tell the tale and publish all the groundbreaking material that they had recorded and scetches along the way. Niebuhr reached Bombay and worked his way back to Denmark, which he finally reached in 1767. These volumes - published in various and sometimes abbreviated form in German, English, Dutch and French - provided scientists throughout Europe with fascinating and groundbreaking new information about the Arabian world, both on architecture, history, hats of the region, etnographical observations and highly important and precise plates, depicting Arabic writing, hieroglyphs and cuneiform writing. Philologists were thrilled, and Niebuhrs depictions and observations about the cuneiform he recorded in Persepolis was the spark that cracked the deciphering of these ancient letters.
** If you can live with five leaves in facsimile (and the remaining 121 plates in great shape!), this is a very, very reasonably priced set of this amazing book gem,
* The account of one of the most renowned expeditions to the Middle East. The Danish based crew of scientists, under the command of Frederik Christian von Haven,set out from Copenhagen in 1761, landed in Alexandria and travelled over Sinai to Arabia and Yemen. Sadly, the members of the expedition died one after one, and only Niebuhr survived the exhausting sojourn to tell the tale and publish all the groundbreaking material that they had recorded and scetches along the way. Niebuhr reached Bombay and worked his way back to Denmark, which he finally reached in 1767. These volumes - published in various and sometimes abbreviated form in German, English, Dutch and French - provided scientists throughout Europe with fascinating and groundbreaking new information about the Arabian world, both on architecture, history, hats of the region, etnographical observations and highly important and precise plates, depicting Arabic writing, hieroglyphs and cuneiform writing. Philologists were thrilled, and Niebuhrs depictions and observations about the cuneiform he recorded in Persepolis was the spark that cracked the deciphering of these ancient letters.
** If you can live with five leaves in facsimile (and the remaining 121 plates in great shape!), this is a very, very reasonably priced set of this amazing book gem,
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