BURCKHARDT, John Lewis.

Travels in Syria and the Holy Land,

Name: Travels in Syria and the Holy Land,
Brand: BURCKHARDT, John Lewis.
SKU: 118967
Price: 2750.00 GBP
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Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior parts of Africa.

Stock Code 118967

London, John Murray, 1822.

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Burckhardt is an heroic figure among travellers to the Levant. He settled in Aleppo in 1810, where he spent three years learning Arabic. During this period he made many journeys throughout Syria and the Holy Land. In 1812 he was the first European to visit Petra. In 1814, in the guise of an Arab, under the name of Sheikh Ibrahim which he had long used on his travels, he visited Mecca, and transmitted the most complete account of the Hedjaz which had ever been received in Europe. He died of dysentery whilst exploring the Niger in 1817. Edited from Burckhardt's papers by Martin Leake and published posthumously.

First edition; 4to (28.5 x 23 cm); portrait frontispiece, 6 maps, 2 of which folding, a little spotting to plates; later half calf, marbled boards, spine in five compartments with original gilt morocco lettering piece laid down, a very good copy; xxiii, [iii], 668 pp.

Atabey II, 166; Blackmer 237; Rohricht 1627; Tobler 141; Weber 106.

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