Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel. Dumas is the publisher. The author is Louis Du Couret called Hadji-Abd-el-Hamid bey, 1812-1867.
Published under the title L'Arabie heureuse; souvenirs de voyages en Afrique et en Asie, par Hadji-Abd-el-Hamid bey, publiés par Alexandre Dumas.
From A Bibliography of Alexandre Dumas père by Frank Wild Reed: The continuation of the above work, the experiences of Du Couret. It commences : "Au retour de mon Pèlerinage à la Mecque. . ." ("On returning from my pilgrimage to Mecca . . .") Quérard says: "First ran serially in ' Le Siècle.' "
Original edition : Paris, Cadot, 3 vols., 8vo., 1855 (according to Thieme) ; Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, large 8vo. of two columns (according to Quérard), 1860.
It now occupies three volumes in the standard Calmann-Lévy edition, and one in their "Musée Littéraire."
In Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" it is in Vol. XXII.
References :—
Dumas: "Causeries" in "Le Mousquetaire" for Sept. 23rd and December 26/27th, 1854. Quérard: "Supercheries Littéraires Dévoilées," Vol. I., Column 163, article "Abd-el-Hamid-Bey."
Thieme: "Guide Bibliographique" (1907), page 128.
