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MICHAELIS
Johann David. Recueil de questions
MICHAELIS
Johann David. Recueil de questions

MBA004: Lot 62. MICHAELIS, Johann David.

Recueil de questions, proposées.

£800 - £1000

Recueil de questions, proposées. 79904
à une société de savants, qui par ordre de sa majesté danoise font le voyage de l’Arabie… traduit de l’allemand.
S.J. Baalde, Amsterdam 1774.

The Recueil was published to accompany an edition of Description de l’Arabe by Carsten Neibuhr, issued by the same publishers in 1774.

James Bruce of Kinnaird (1730–94) was a Scottish traveller and travel writer who spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia,

Description

First edition in French, 4to., [iv], xliv, 256, [xxx], 38pp., JAMES BRUCE’S COPY with a few pencil annotations, contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, an excellent copy.

Provenance

Provenance: James Bruce (1730-1794), explorer, with “Bruce of Kinnaird” bookplate and several pencil annotations; Rosenkilde & Bagger, Cat.200, no.273 (1979); Dr. Bent Juel-Jensen (Amharic book label).

Bibliography

Gay 3366.