BURCKHARDT, Johann Ludwig.- Travels in Nubia. Published by the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. London, John Murray (printed by C. Roworth), 1822.
Estimation :
300 / 400
Description
In-4° : [6]-xcviii-498 pp.; 3 pl. (copy slightly browned, some foxing including on the pl., text partly lacking or erased on some pp. due to the sticking of pp., marginal tear on p. 293).
Contemporary binding : threequarter bordeaux morocco, purple paper boards, gilt decorated flat spine, black top edge, brown sprinkled edges (small defects, corners slightly dulled).
Second posthumous edition illustrated with the etched portrait of the author, 3 maps (2 foldings) and some vignettes in the text. The Swiss geographer Burckhardt (1784-1817), best known for rediscovering the ruins of Petra, launched an expedition to search the source of the Niger river under the auspices of the African Association. While waiting for a caravan, he visited the valley of the Nile revealing monuments of Ancient Egypt to Europeans as Abu Simbel. When finally the long-expected caravan prepared to depart, poor Burckhardt was seized by dysentry and died a few days later.
# Blackmer 439.
JOINT, same author : Travels of M. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia. From the Calcutta Journal. London, Richard Phillips, 1819, in-8° sewed, 32 pp. (1st p. detached). Letters, some signed by the writer's Mohammedan name : Ibrahim or Hadj Ibrahim.
IHFZ Seconde édition posthume illustrée d'1 portrait et 3 cartes. Burckhardt explora la Vallée du Nil révélant notamment Abu Simbel. Plein maroq. bordeaux (ex. lég. bruni, rouss.). Avec un tiré à part du "Calcutta Journal" joint.
Contemporary binding : threequarter bordeaux morocco, purple paper boards, gilt decorated flat spine, black top edge, brown sprinkled edges (small defects, corners slightly dulled).
Second posthumous edition illustrated with the etched portrait of the author, 3 maps (2 foldings) and some vignettes in the text. The Swiss geographer Burckhardt (1784-1817), best known for rediscovering the ruins of Petra, launched an expedition to search the source of the Niger river under the auspices of the African Association. While waiting for a caravan, he visited the valley of the Nile revealing monuments of Ancient Egypt to Europeans as Abu Simbel. When finally the long-expected caravan prepared to depart, poor Burckhardt was seized by dysentry and died a few days later.
# Blackmer 439.
JOINT, same author : Travels of M. Burckhardt, in Egypt and Nubia. From the Calcutta Journal. London, Richard Phillips, 1819, in-8° sewed, 32 pp. (1st p. detached). Letters, some signed by the writer's Mohammedan name : Ibrahim or Hadj Ibrahim.
IHFZ Seconde édition posthume illustrée d'1 portrait et 3 cartes. Burckhardt explora la Vallée du Nil révélant notamment Abu Simbel. Plein maroq. bordeaux (ex. lég. bruni, rouss.). Avec un tiré à part du "Calcutta Journal" joint.
