Mecca--Wallin. Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska öknen i April 1845. 1853, first edition, 8vo, boards

MECCA ̶ WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST

Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Helsinki: [S. Baranovskij for] J. Simelius, 1853

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 135mm.), steel-engraved map, twentieth-century boards

Wallin (1812–1852), a Finnish orientalist, set out for the Middle-East in 1843 under the name of Abd al-Wali and visited Mecca in 1845, several years before Richard Burton. This book, published the year after Wallin’s death aged forty, is of considerable rarity.

LITERATURE:

Howgego W12

PROVENANCE:

Johan Victor Procopé (Finnish politician and bibliophile), bookplate