Documents Epigraphiques recueillis dans le Nord de l'Arabie. Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliotheque Nationale et Autres Bibliotheques. Publiés par l'Institut National de France.

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64 pp., of French & English text, 57 engraved plates of which 16 drawings, 3 maps and 9 folding plates (mostly heliographs of archaeological inscriptions and sites), introduction by Ernest Renan, modern half-maroquin with corners, raised spine with gilt lettering and decorations, original front cover cut out, preserved and tipped in on trade paper, extract from ?Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale et Autres Bibliothèques?, Tome XXIV, copy in very good condition. The publication of this volume follows long negotiations during which Doughty tried unsuccessfully to sell the Nabatean inscriptions he brought back with him from North Africa in the years 1876-77, to the British Museum and then to the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Museum of Berlin. The Paris based Academie des Inscriptions were preparing to publish, under the direction of Ernest Renan, a Corpus of Semitic Inscriptions. Doughty accepted their offer to publish this volume quickly (under the pressure of Huber's second visit to Northern Arabia) and for no remuneration except for 150 free copies. Renan and the Epigraphists J.Derenbourg, de Vogue, P. Berger, J. Halévy and Clermont -Ganneau translated the 27 Nabatean texts copied in Midian-Saleh. These inscriptions in Aramaic show that most of the Surnames are in Arabic, which proves the origins of these Nabateans. Doughty deposited his copies of the book with Klincksieck, the bookseller that Renan's recommended, but by the end of 1885 only 31 copies were sold. Some of the plates in this book were later used for ?Arabia Deserta?, and Cambridge University Press had to borrow them from the Academie for a fee which aroused Doughty's indignation on the grounds that he had originally supplied them for free. Bibliographic reference: Macro 855. #10887. N° de ref. del artículo 007362

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