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. Paris, Cailleau, 1716. 12mo (17:10,5 cm). Mit gefalt. Kupferkarte u. 3 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. 8 Bll., 403 S., 6 Bll. Ldr. d. Zt., Rvg. oxydiert, Rücken mit kleinen Fehlstellen, Rückdeckel mit Schabspur.

Second edition, textually identical with the first. With folding engraved map and 3 folding engraved plates depicting details of the coffee-tree. - Slight staining to few leaves, stamp to second leaf and p. 92. Contemporary calf, gilding oxidised, small flaws to spine.

Atabey 673; Hünersdorff 1271 (ausführlich); Mueller, Kaffee 180. - Zweite rechtmäßige Ausgabe, die seltene Originalausgabe war 1715 bei Huguier & Cailleau 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 ... (The added treatise on coffee) 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). - Vereinzelt leicht fleckig; Bl. a2 u. S. 92 mit Stempel.