Arabian Peninsula - Description and travel
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The chevalier D'Arvieux's travels in Arabia the desart written by himself, and Publish'd by Mr. De la Roque: Giving a very accurate and entertaining Account of the Religion, Rights, Customs, Diversions, &c. of the Bedouins, or Arabian Scenites. Undertaken by order of the late French king To which is added, A general description of Arabia, by Sultan Ishmael Abulfeda, translated from the best Manuscripts; with Notes. Done into English by an eminent hand. Illustrated with Copper Plates.
Arvieux, Laurent d', 1635-1702.Date: 1718- E-books
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Observations on the passage to India, through Egypt , and across the great desert; with Occasional Remarks on the adjacent Countries, and also sketches of the different routes: by James Capper, Esq; Colonel in the Service of the Hon. East India Company. Tentanda Via est.
Capper, James, 1743-1825.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- E-books
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A voyage to Arabia the happy , by the way of the Eastern ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea: perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together With a particular Relation of a Journey from the Port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second Expedition, A. D. 1711, 1712, 1713. Also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its Fruit. Collected from the Observations of those employed in this last Voyage. Likewise an historical Treatise of the first use of Coffee, and the Progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe; how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris.
La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.Date: 1726- E-books
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The travels of the Jesuits in Ethiopia containing I. The geographical description of all kingdoms, and provinces of that Empire; the natural and political history; the manners, customs, and religion of those people, &c. II. Travels in Arabia Felix, wherein many things of that country, not mention'd in other books of this nature, are treated of, as a particular description of Aden, Moca, and several other places. III. An account of the kingdoms of Cambate, Gingiro, Alaba, and Dancali beyond Ethiopia in Africk, never travelled into by any but the Jesuits, and consequently wholly unknown to us. Illustrated with an exact map of the country, delineated by those fathers, as is the draught of the true springs and course of the Nile, within Ethiopia, besides other useful cuts. The whole collected, and historically digested by F. Balthazar Tellez, of the society of Jesus; and now first translated into English.
Telles, Balthazar, 1596-1675.Date: 1710- E-books
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Travels to the coast of Arabia Felix and from thence by the Red-Sea and Egypt, to Europe. Containing a short account of an expedition undertaken against the Cape of Good Hope. In a series of letters by Henry Rooke, Esq. Late Major Of The 100th Regiment Of Foot And Lt. Colonel, BY Brevet, In India.
Henry Isidore Joachim Raphael RookeDate: 1788