MICHAELIS, JOHANN DAVID: - Recueil de questions proposées à une Societé de Savans qui par ordre de sa Majesté Danoise font le voyage de l'Arabie. Francfort sur le Mayn, Jean Gottlieb Garbe, 1763.

. Pp. (xcii), 482, (1). With four large folding tables (pp 469-76). Marbled paper boards, silk cloth spine lettered in gilt (from late19th century). First French edition, translated from the original German (1762) by Hans Bernard Mérian. Comprises preface, introduction by von Bernstorff (minister to King Frederic V.), 43 paragraphs and 100 questions composed by Michaelis aimed for the expedition (related to archeology, linguistics, geography etc.) and a mémoire containing articles dealing with the religion, government, language, customs and manners in Yemen. Michaelis (1717-91), a German Lutheran theologian and famous orientalist, was involved with the preparations of the Danish scientific expedition to the Middle East in 1761-67 led by Carsten Niebuhr. Michaelis wanted to investigate the relationship of the southern Arabic dialetcs to Hebrew, and further to find out about zoological and botanical facts in the Bible. Chadenat 1933. Gay 2266.

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