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Total number of records: 26

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Brotherton Collection3
Cookery Collection1

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pilgrims and pilgrimages2
coffee2
inscriptions, himyaritic2

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PlaceCount
Arabian Peninsula26
Egypt3
Middle East3
Iran2
Palestine1
Paris (France)1
Spain1
Ethiopia1
Medina (Saudi Arabia)1
Hejaz (Saudi Arabia)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Palgrave, William Gifford (1826-1888)4
La Roque, Jean De (1661-1745)2
Forster, Charles (1871)2
Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890)2
Mourier, Ferdinand Louis2
Niebuhr, Carsten (1733-1815)2
Wellsted, James Raymond (1842)2
Pococke, Edward (1604-1691)2
Burton, Isabel (1831-1896)2
Lowth, G T2

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Voyage en retour de l'Inde : par terre, et par une route en partie inconnue jusqu'ici

Howel, Thomas; Capper, James (1743-1825); Plaisted, Bartholomew (1767); Mandar, Théophile (1759-1823); Eliot, Eliot (fl. 1750)

an V. [1796-1797]

Page 357 wrongly numbered 356. The "Observations sur le passage dans l'Inde" and "Itinéraire de l'Arabie déserte" have individual half-title pages. Barbier and Quérard attribute the translation...

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Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land

Stephens, John Lloyd (1805-1852)

1840

With an additonal title-page, engraved.

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Specimen historiae arabum

Bar-Hebraeus (1226-1286); Abū al-Fidāʼ Ismāʻīl ibn ʻAlī (1273-1331); Pococke, Edward (1604-1691); Silvestre de Sacy, A I (1758-1838); White, Joseph (1745-1814)

1806

Title vignette. The two Arabic texts are accompanied by translations. "Notae, in quibus aliquammulta quae ad historiam orientalium apprime illustrandam faciunt, e melioris apud ipsos notae authori...

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Historia imperii vetustissimi Joctanidarum in Arabia felice

Ṭabarī (838?-923); Masʻūdī; Nuwayrī, Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhāb al- (1279-1332?); Ḥamzah al-Iṣfahānī; Schultens, Albert (1686-1750); Pococke, Edward (1604-1691); Bochart, Samuel (1559-1667); Abū al Fidā, Ismā'īl ibn 'Alī (1273-1331)

1786

"Monumenta vetustiora Arabiae" has individual t.p. with imprint: Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Johannem Luzac, 1740, and separate pagination." "Colonia Joctanidarum" has also separate pagination. In Ar...

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Travels in Arabia (v.1)

Wellsted, James Raymond (1842)

1838

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Travels in Arabia (v.2)

Wellsted, James Raymond (1842)

1838

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The travels of the chevalier d'Arvieux in Arabia the desart

Arvieux, Laurent d' (1635-1702); Abulfeda (1273-1331); De la Roque, Jean (1661-1745)

1732

The general description of Arabia has a separate title-page, dated 1718.

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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah : by Sir Richard F. Burton (v.1)

Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890); Burton, Isabel (1831-1896)

1893

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Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to al-Madinah & Meccah : by Sir Richard F. Burton (v.2)

Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890); Burton, Isabel (1831-1896)

1893

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