Description de l'Arabie: faite sur les observations propres et des avis recueillis dans les lieux mêmes
Niebuhr's 1774 Description de l'Arabie is an 18th-century French archaeological and topographic account by Carsten Niebuhr, based on his own observations in Arabia. The plates show Kufic inscribed stones and ancient coins, drawn in fine engraved line for a scholarly readership. A designer might take the crisp hatched engraving and the dense angular script as reference for antiquarian plate layouts and lettering.
