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NIEBUHR, CARSTEN. Description de l'Arabie. 18 engraved plates and 7 maps; letterpress genealogical table. [2], xliii, [3], 372 pages. 4to, 244x192 mm, contemporary sheep, brittle, spine ends and joints chipped, cover edges worn through, white ink shelf number; contents generally clean with only infrequent light marginal foxing and soiling, plates 4 and 5 lightly offset, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary stamp on title. Copenhagen: Nicolas Möller, 1773
first edition in french of Niebuhr's writings on the ill-fated 1761-67 Danish scientific expedition to Arabia, during which all but one of the participants died.
