A voyage to Arabia the happy, by the way of the Eastern ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea: perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together With a particular Relation of a Journey from the Port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second Expedition, A. D. 1711, 1712, 1713. Also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its Fruit. Collected from the Observations of those employed in this last Voyage. Likewise an historical Treatise of the first use of Coffee, and the Progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe; how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

La Roque, Jean de, 1661-1745.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coffee--Early works to 1800.

Coffee.

Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel.

Arabian Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,312p.,plates ) map ;

Other Title:

Voyage to Arabia the happy,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for G. Strahan, at the Golden-Ball over-against the Royal-Exchange; and R. Williamson near Gray's-Inn Gate, Holborn, 1726.

Notes:

Preface signed: La Roque.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T131746.

OCLC:

642367518