Carsten Niebuhrs Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern
Carsten Niebuhr's 1774 German travel account of Arabia and neighbouring lands, written by the Danish expedition member Carsten Niebuhr for a scholarly readership interested in archaeology and topography. The plates here are engraved views and sketches: hieroglyphic inscriptions, town panoramas across desert and coast, and a rocky coastline with distant mountains. A designer might take from them the flat, line-engraved look of 18th-century topographic prints, with dense hatching for terrain and crowded skylines for cities.
