Cultural anthropological-historical lecture on the history of Arabia Petrea (also known as Rome's Arabian Province) and its population by the German historian and geographer Carl Ritter (1779-1859). This lecture was published as part of the Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin in 1824, but it was never bound as part of that volume, so it was apparently issued separately. Arabia Petrea consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in Jordan, southern Levant, the Sinai Peninsula and the northwestern Arabian Peninsula. In the present text, Ritter particularly discusses the Roman conquest of Arabia Petrea and the testimonies about it, but also describes it as a place of wealth and flourishing trade (particularly from Elath to Southern Arabia and India), with many populated cities and villages. Ritter also gives some geographical remarks upon Arabia Petrea, describing for example the landscape.
Untrimmed (and therefore some edges are very slightly frayed) and with some bolts unopened. Otherwise in good condition.