$1,476
Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815) Beschreibung von Arabien . Copenhagen: Möller, 1772. First edition, quarto, illustrated with twenty-five engravings extraneous to the collation, all thrown out on full-page sheets and mounted as folding, the first twenty-four are numbered, and include several maps, the last is a large folding map of Yemen with hand-colored outlines; plates four and five, exhibiting different manuscript hands, are also hand-colored in red and yellow, and the plate showing Mecca has a little line of yellow on the Kaaba; in addition, a folding typographical table is bound opposite page 194; ex libris James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), the American archaeologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, with his bookplate pasted inside the front board, and rubber stamp on the title; in contemporary boards, head and tail chipped, boards still attached, some spotting to contents, unsophisticated and still structurally sound, 10 x 7 3/4 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31