May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 400

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WREDE, ADOLPH VON, Baron. Reise in Hadhramaut, Beled Beny Yssa und Beled el Hadschar. Edited by Heinrich von Maltzan. Plate depicting Himyaritic inscription; folding lithographed map. viii, 375 pages, but with half-title and foreword bound after table of contents. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 cloth, spine faded; varying foxing of text. Braunschweig, 1873

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First published in 1870. Wrede (1807-63) was the first European to explore the Hadhramaut region of southern Arabia.