Burckhardt, John Lewis

FIRST EDITION, 4to (270 x 210mm.), half-title, etched frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), 2pp. advertisements dated 1819, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, new endpapers, minor spotting and dampstaining, folding maps either repaired or torn, rebacked retaining original spine, repairs

Reverend Thomas Coombe M.A., bookplate

cf. Blackmer 238 and Weber I, 106 (both second edition)

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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The first of Burckhardt's works to be published. He "left Aleppo in 1812 and made his way to Cairo; he then carried out two journeys: one along the upper Nile and the other through the Nubian desert. These travels were edited from Burckhardt's journals by Leake; he also wrote the biographical memoir which is prefaced to the travels" (Blackmer).