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A'BDOUL - KERYM.
L. Langles and William Hodges.
Collection portative de voyages traduits de diffrentes langues Orientales et Europeennes.
Three accounts of travels to Asia and the Middle East are illustrated with 20 superb contemporary coloured plates.
- Published
- Paris: Imprimeries de Crapelet et de Delance, 1797-1805.
- References
- Gay 3631; not in JCB; not in Chadenat and Diba
- Plates
- 20
- Binding/Size
- Xs=12mo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Paris: Imprimeries de Crapelet et de Delance, 1797-1805.
- Ref
- 1238
Illustrated travels through Asia and the Middle East 3 works in 5 vols. 12mo. Full contemporary black morocco, spine gilt, gilt covers, and inner dentelles, gilt edge. Bookplate of Lord Northwick on front pastedown of each volume, marbled endpapers. Twenty engraved plates, mostly double-page, all depicted twice, once in black-and-white and once beautifully coloured by hand. XXXII, 246; CXXXI, (1), 142; (4), 270(=274); (4), XVII, (1), 222; (4), 252 pp. Beautiful series, uniformly bound, comprising three different works with travels to Asia and the Middle East. All translated and with comments by L. Langles. Contents: - ABDOUL-KERYM. Voyage de l'Inde a la Mecque. Paris, Crapelet, 1797-1798. 2 engraved plates (Femmes d'Alep, Arabes). Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. Voyage de L'Inde a la Mekke. 1. Femmes d'Alep. 2. Arabes du desert connus sous le nom de Bedouins. Volume 2. Voyages de La Perse dans L'Inde et du Bengal en Perse. 3. Femme d'Ispahan / Femme de Bassorah. 4. Vue de Chyraz, d'apres M Nieburh, ingenieur danois. 5. Tombeau de Hhafiz, dessine, par Koempfer. Volume 3. 6. Persan sumant le narguil. Volume 4. 7. Pagode de Tandjaour. 8. Calcutta. 9. Zenana. 10. Defile de Sicrygolly. 11. Arbre des Banians. 12. Femmes musulmanes. 13. Paysans de l'Inde. 14. Colonne. 15. Veuve hindoue allant au bucher. 16. Bidjegor. Volume 5. 17. Palais de Luknau. 18. Agrah. 19. Molla et femme musulmane. 20. Gualyor.
