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Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (1784-1817) Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Collected during his Travels in the East.
London: Henry Coburn & Richard Bentley, 1831.
First edition, two volumes bound as one; folding map frontispiece to first title; in full morocco with gold tooling; rebacked; ex libris Edwin Winter Mead, with modern calling card tacked to front free end leaf; top edge gilt; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Swiss-born scholar and traveler, Burckhardt traveled in the Arab world under the name Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abdallah, and dressed in local garb. He also came across rock-cut architectural wonders at Petra in Jordan, built during the second century BCE by the Nabataeans, unknown to Europeans before he visited in 1812, and the temples of Abu Simbel, carved from the rock in Upper Egypt in the 13th century BCE.
