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Arabien. - (La Roque, J. de . Voyage de l'Arabie heureuse, par l'ocean oriental, & le détroit de la Mer Rouge. Fait par les François pour la première fois, dans les années 1708, 1709 & 1710. Avec la relation particulière d'un voyage du port de Moka à la cour du roy d'Yemen 1711, 1712 & 1713. Un mémoire concernant l'arbre & le fruit du Café. Et un traité historique de l'origine & du progrès du Café. Amsterdam, Steenhouwer et Uytwerf, 1716. (17,5:11 cm). Mit gest. Front., Titelvign., 1 gefalt. Kupferkarte u. 3 gefalt. Kupfertaf. 7 Bll., 343 S., 5 Bll. Ldr. d. Zt., teilw. berieben, Kapital bestoßen. Cox I, 222; Atabey 673 Anm.; Hage Chahine 2653 Anm.; Hünersdorff 1271 ff. (ausführlich); Mueller, Kaffee 180 f. - Erste Amsterdamer Ausgabe, die Originalausgabe war 1715 in Paris erschienen. Erlebte mehrere Auflagen sowie Übersetzungen ins Deutsche, Englische und Italienische. "Highly influential account of the two French exploratory voyages to Arabia, 1708-1713, the second directed exclusively to the Yemen... particularly interested in investigating the possibility of purchasing coffee which the French at that time obtained mostly from the Levant. This treatise is remarkable for providing the first descriptions of the coffee plantations and the Coffee trade of Arabia based on reports by three French physicians who took part in the second voyage. As the author also gives an extensive account of the history of the coffee drink and its introduction into France, this work can be regarded as the first scholarly treatise on the origins of coffee both in the Near East, and in Europe" (Hünersdorff). - Etwas gebräunt, Front. verso mit älterem Sammlerstempel. First Amsterdam edition, textually identical with the two preceding in Paris imprints. With engraved frontispiece showing French merchants buying coffee in Arabia, title-vignette, folding map and 3 folding plates depicting details of the coffee-tree. - Some browning, stamp to frontispiece verso. Contemporary calf, some rubbing, head of spine worn.