[Arabia. Niebuhr] Beschryving van Arabie,

uit eigen waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld door Carsten Niebuhr. Uit het hoogduits vertaald, en vermeerderd met een volledig register op het gehele werk. Printed by J.J. Besseling in Utrecht for S.J. Baalde in Amsterdam and J. van Schoonhoven & Comp. in Utrecht, 1774, (8 incl. 2 blank),XXXXI,(1),408,(14) p., with the following engravings: title vignette, large fold. map w. handcol. outlines and 24 (fold.) maps and plates by C.J. de Huyser, N. van der Meer Jun., all according to binder's index, 1 fold. letterpress table, contemp. plain boards, large 4to.

Waterst. in first quire and in blank margins at the end. Paper over spine split and worn at spine ends. A good, untrimmed copy. Tiele 795; Cox I, p. 237; Aboussouan 682-683. The account of the extensive travels of Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) in Arabia, Persia, Palestine and Asia Minor, which made him a pioneer of new knowledge of the Orient. It contained more information than all the other sources up to that point combined. "His accounts are probably the best and most authentic of their day" (Cox). Our first Dutch edition appeared only 2 years after the original German edition of 1772.