Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

118 MURRAY, Hugh. The encyclopaedia of geography: comprising a complete
description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political; exhibiting its relation
to the heavenly bodies, its physical structure, the natural history of each country, and
the industry, commerce, political institutions, and civil and social state of all nations.
Revised, with additions by Thomas G. Bradford. Philadelphia, Carey, Lea, and
Blanchard, 1837.
3 volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, black labels to spines. With 82 maps and ca.
1100 wood-engravings in the text. 597; 592; 624 pp. € 225,00
119 NEITZSCHITZ, George Christoph. Merkwürdige Reisen/ so derselbe durch
Europa/ Asien und Africa seiner Zeit gethan; dabey nicht nur die Beschaffenheit
derer Länder, sondern auch viele andere besondere Begebenheiten angemercket werden
.. Magdeburg, Gottfried Vettern, 1753.
4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (top of spine skilfully rebacked). With title printed
in red and black, engraved title, folding engraved view of Jerusalem (lower part damaged
with loss of text of the legend, not affecting the image) and 10 engraved plates.
(6),320,(23) pp. € 875,00
First published in German in 1666. - Account of the two travels by Neitzschitz to the
Levant, 1630-37. He also accompanied the imperial legacy led by Count Buchheim to
the Ottoman court. - (Age-browned). - Scarce.
Tobler p.102; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.62; Gay 269. – See illustration.
120 NIEBUHR, Carsten. Beschryving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en
in't land zelf verzamelde narigten opgesteld. Uit het Hoogduits vertaald.
Amsterdam, S.J. Baalde, Utrecht, J. van Schoonhoven & Comp., 1774.
4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title-label to
spine. With engraved title-page, 7 engraved maps (5 folding; the large folding map of
Yemen coloured in outline) and 18 engraved plates (3 folding; including two coloured
plates with Arab texts) by C.J. de Huyser, N. v.d. Meer and Th. Koning.
(4),XXXXII,408,(14) pp. € 2.150,00
First Dutch edition. - In 1761, at the invitation of Frederick V, King of Denmark,
Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815) joined a Danish government-sponsored scientific expedition
to explore the Arabian Peninsula, known as Arabia Felix. The five other members,
who would die all during the expedition, were Peter Forrskal, a Swedish naturalist,
Christian Kramer, a Danish physician and zoologist, George Baurenfeind, a
German artist, Friedrich von Haven, a Danish linguist, and a former Swedish military
man named Berggren. They, disguised as Muslims, sailed on a ship carrying pilgrims
to the Arabian port of Jidda. Niebuhr's account of his journey in Arabia and the
Persian Gulf provided Europeans with the first comprehensive descriptions of the
region; his map of Yemen was the first to detail scientifically that portion of the
Arabian Peninsula. ' There are few better demonstrations of how little was still known
about the Arab world in the second half of the eighteenth century than the Danish