Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$526.00 + shipping
Description: 4to [29 x 24 cm]; vii, 333, [ii, ads dated March, 1822] pp, 18 engraved plates and maps including 2 folding maps, folding plate and frontis. original boards, joint split but holding, old hand-written title on front board, printed title label on spine, engraved bookplate of Percival Ross Frames, early owner's note on title, inscribed 'from the Author' on endpaper, dampstains, else very good. The authors followed Burckhardt up the Nile. Dressed as Turks, they ascended the river as far as Merowe. 'He gave a polished and amusing account of his experiences' (Moorehead, The Blue Nile). Waddington did the actual writing of the book and the original sketches which include scenes of the pyramids at El Bellal, the Castle of Koke, a Nubian ferry-boat, figures of Bacchus, temple at Djebel el Berkel, sculptures, temples, a native of D'Ongola, etc. Gay 2693. Lowndes 2802. Abbey Travel 289. A picture of this book is available on request.
Seller: Horizon Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$545.39 + shipping
Description: Second Edition Quarto. Worn Half Contemporary green Morocco (some time recased) with spine compartments ornately decorated in gilt. Illustrated with a Frontispiece Portrait, two folding Maps and another chart. Complete with Half Title, pps. xcviii + 498pps. A.e.gilt. Some mild foxing otherwise Very Good. Ex - Belcher Library Bookplate and oval stamp to free-endpaper. (Blackmer 238)
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
John Lewis Burckhardt. Travels in Nubia. John Murray, London, 1822.
Price: US$641.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tight clean copy. Half brown leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Signs of shelf wear with scuffing to leather corners and spine and surface of leather coming away on spine. Front cover is loose but still attached. Library sticker to inside front cover and numeric notation to title page. Previous library stamps (Ayr Mechanics Institute) to title page, first page and last page. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Internally tightly bound and fold out map intact. Foxing, mainly to frontis, title page and first couple of pages and slightly to a few other pages mainly maps, otherwise clean and bright. Includes a Memoir of Burckhardt. Published by the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. Frontis of John Lewis Burckhardt, etched by Angelica Clarke from the original drawing by Slater.
Seller: Barassie Books, BICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: xcviii, 498 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three maps (2 folding). 4to, rebound in modern quarter morocco over marbled boards. Second edition. The first few pages are lightly foxed; large tear to pp. 79-80 detaching a portion of the text, with a few words lost at the lower right corner; marginal chipping and repairs to tears of a few other leaves; old repairs to spits at folds of one folding map; the other folding map neatly backed with tissue.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xcviii, 498 pp., frontispiece portrait, 3 maps of which 2 are folding, contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, title gilt on raised decorated spine, appendix, previous owner’s book plate verso front cover, edges slightly rubbed, spotting at the last few pages. The travels described here took place in 1813 and 1814. Burckhardt (1784-1817), a Swiss traveler and adventurer who adopted native dress and went by the name of "Sheikh Ibrahim," made two journeys along the Upper Nile and through Nubia during the period 1812-17. He Aleppo in 1812 and made his way to Cairo; then he carried out his Egyptian journeys; These travels were edited from Burckhardt’s journals by Leake; he also wrote the biographical memoir which is prefaced to the travels. This was the first of Burckhardt’s works to be published and was followed by Travels In Syria ( 1822). All of these journeys were made on behalf of the Africa Association whose president, Sir Joseph Banks, had required Burckhardt, for the long and difficult project of exploring Africa. The journeys described in these works were preparatory to the major effort of exploring the interior of Africa. In 1817 Burckhardt began the exploration of the countries of the Niger, but he was attacked by dysentery and died in October of that year. [ Weber, 106; Blackmer 238 for second edition; Hilmy I, 105]. #34236.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$991.86 + shipping
Description: London, John Murray (Printed by C. Roworth, Bell Yard, Temple Bar), 1822, Seconda edizione. Esemplare a pieni margini in barbe, in legatura coeva, forse il cartonato originale (usurato ai bordi), proveniente dalla prestigiosa collezione Henry Blackmer (ex libris). Etichetta di biblioteca al contropiatto posteriore: «Berkeley Divinity School MDCCCLIIII»; etichetta del libraio Whipple e Lawrence di Salem. Fioriture diffuse ad alcune pagine. John Lewis Burckhardt nato in Svizzera, educato a Lipsia, trasferitosi poi in Inghilterra e sotto gli auspici della Associazione per la Promozione delle parti interne dell'Africa, intraprese un viaggio incredibile. Divenne maestro delle lingue e dei costumi della zona; travestito da commerciante musulmano raggiunse persone e luoghi in un modo che nessun occidentale aveva mai potuto fare. Il suo viaggio lo portò in tutta l'Africa nord-est lungo il Nilo attraverso il deserto raggiungendo Palmyra, Damasco, Libano, e il deserto nubiano. Durante un viaggio verso le rovine di Uadi Mousa divenne il primo occidentale a identificare il sito dell'antica capitale di Petria; primo europeo a registrare il pellegrinaggio alla Mecca e Medina. Burckhardt morì in Africa nel 1817. Ibrahim Hilmy I, p.105; Blackmer Collection 238; Weber 106; Von Hünersdorff I, p.229. in 4°, cartonato coevo, forse originale, grigio al dorso e in carta marrone ai piatti; pecetta a stampa con titolo al dorso; pp. [8] XCVIII 498; ritratto in antiporta e 3 carte (2 rip.) con il percorso del Nilo, Seconda edizione. Esemplare a pieni margini in barbe, in legatura coeva, forse il cartonato originale (usurato ai bordi), proveniente dalla prestigiosa collezione Henry Blackmer (ex libris). Etichetta di biblioteca al contropiatto posteriore: «Berkeley Divinity School MDCCCLIIII»; etichetta del libraio Whipple e Lawrence di Salem. Fioriture diffuse ad alcune pagine. cartonato coevo, forse originale, grigio al dorso e in carta marrone ai piatti; pecetta a stampa con titolo al dorso;
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli SRL, Milano, MI, Italy
Price: US$2644.96 + shipping
Description: 4to. (II)+XXIII+(III)+668 pp. With frontisp. portrait & 6 maps/plans (incl. 2 fold.). Hardcover. Later quarter morocco with raised bands, marbled boards. VG. (Old bookseller's label on pastedown, old owner's name on title, erased stamp on verso of title, stamp "Winchester Historical Society" on lower margin of p. 25; light foxing to 1st fold. map, tear in other folding map closed).
Seller: Charbo's Antiquariaat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Burckhardt, John Lewis. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. John Murray c. 1822, London, 1822.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First edition. , Half contemporary green morocco over green pebbled cloth boards with gilt rulings. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with dense gilt ornamental devices. Gilt title on 2. All edges gilt. Pasted and free marbled end papers. , Edited by William Leake, these journals describe Burkhardt?s various journeys between 1810 and 1816. It was at Aleppo that he studied Arabic in preparation for his later travels and he toured Syria and the Holy Land making the first visit by a European to Petra. Burckhardt had been recruited by Sir Joseph Banks on behalf of the African Association to carry out these explorations, but unfortunately died in 1819 before he was able to complete the entire project? , Size : 4to (266x210mm). , Illustrated with two foldout maps and 5 engraved plates, including a portrait frontispiece and 4 maps of various areas in the Levant, and a profusion of in-text engravings. , References : Blackmer 237; Tobler, p.141; Rohrict 1627; Heinze 1:407; Weber 1:107; Atabey 166, P. Half title, Blank, Blank, Frontispiece, Title, Blank, Preface (i-xxiii), Errata, Contents, Directions, 1-668. Very good condition. Plates and text are clean and crisp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. pp. 2 p.l., xxiii, [3]errata, contents, & directions, 668. with half-title. lithographed frontis. portrait of Burckhardt after a sketch by Henry Salt. 6 engraved maps & plans (2 folding). numerous text illus. 19th century calf, former owners gilt arms on covers, spine richly gilt (joints & edges somewhat rubbed, some scratches on covers, some light foxing to & offsetting from plates but overall an appealing copy). First Edition. Burckhardt travelled throughout North Africa and the Middle East for seven years under the auspices of the Association For Promoting The Discovery Of The Interior Parts Of Africa. A master of the Arabic language and the Islamic religion, he assumed the guise of an Arab using the name of Sheikh Ibrahim in his travels. His journals are invaluable for their observations on the Arab people and for his important geographical discoveries, including the site of Petra, Apameia, and the general structure of the peninsula of Mount Sinai. The present work was edited following Burckhardts death by William Leake and published by the Association For Promoting The Discovery Of The Interior Parts Of Africa. Included are accounts of Burckhardts lengthy sojourn in Aleppo, where he spent three years studying Arabic in preparation for his African travels, his six-months journey in 1810-11 to Palmyra, Damascus, Baalbekk, Lebanon, and the Hauran, during which he encountered great danger and hardship because of the disturbed state into which the country had been thrown by the Wahhaby revolt, his expedition to Damascus through the Mountains of Arabia Petraea and Desert el Ty, to Cairo in the summer of 1812, and journal of a tour in the Peninsula of Mount Sinai in the spring of 1816. The appendix contains an account of the Ryhanlu Turkmans and observations on the division of Syria and the recent changes in the government of Aleppo. Blackmer 237. Tobler p. 141. Weber 107.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$7163.44 + shipping
Description: Large 4to (282 x 230 mm). (4), XXIII, (3), 668 pp. With lithographed portrait frontispiece, 3 engraved maps (2 folding), and 3 engraved plans. Contemporary full calf with gilt spine, two labels, and cover borders. Gilt inner dentelle, marbled endpapers. First edition. Posthumously edited by William Leake, these journals describe Burckhardt's various journeys between 1810 and 1816. It was at Aleppo that he studied Arabic in preparation for his later travels (clandestinely, in Arab guise under the cognomen Sheikh Ibrahim) and he toured Syria, the Lebanon and Palestine. Burckhardt had been recruited by Sir Joseph Banks on behalf of the African Association to carry out these explorations, but unfortunately he died in 1819 before he was able to complete the entire project. - Binding somewhat rubbed along extremeties; hinges and upper spine-end repaired. A little browning and foxing near the beginning, otherwise internally fine. The portrait shows Burckhardt "in his Arab Bernous, sketched at Cairo Feb. 1817 by H. Salt, Esq.". - Macro 628. Blackmer 237. Atabey 166. Aboussouan 174. Tobler 141. Röhricht 1627. Weber I, 107. Howgego II, p. 82, B76. Henze I, 406. Brunet I, 1401. Graesse I, 575. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 106.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria