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Hadji Abd-El-Hamid Bey (L[Ouis-Laurent] Du Couret).

Les mystères du désert. Souvenirs de voyages en Asie et en Afrique.

Paris, E. Dentu, 1859.,

950,00 €

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Autore
Hadji Abd-El-Hamid Bey (L[Ouis-Laurent] Du Couret).
Editori
Paris, E. Dentu, 1859.
Soggetto
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Lingue
Inglese

Descrizione

2 vols. 12mo. XXXIV, (2), 492 pp. (4), 484 pp. With 2 folding maps. Contemporary marbled red half calf with giltstamped title to spine. Marbled endpapers. First edition. - The French traveller L. du Couret (1812-67) is said to have made his first journey to the East in 1836, joining the Egyptian army in Syria and visiting Nubia, Senner, Kordofan, and Darfur. He states that he embraced Islam and made the pilgrimage to Mecca. He remains a dubious character, and some critics have even doubted his existence, attributing his works to the imagination of Alexandre Dumas père, author of the "Three Musketeers", who at least contributed a preface to du Couret's 1854 "Voyage au Pays des Niam-Niams". - Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 6. OCLC 10196303. Cf. Gay 29. NYPL Arabia coll. 166 (1860 ed.).
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