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231 - BURCKHARDT, J. L. Voyages en Arabie contenant la description…
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BURCKHARDT, J. L. Voyages en Arabie contenant la description des parties du Hedjaz regardées comme sacrées par les Musulmans suivis de notes sur les Bédouins et d'un essai sur l'histoire des Wahhabites, translated from English by J-B-B Eyriès, Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1835 3 volumes in-8 (20.5 x 13 cm). Text in French with a few words in Arabic. Volume I: preface by the translator, preface by the English publisher, XXXII-402 pp. 1 folding map and 3 plans h. t. - Volume II: 472 pp, 1 h. t. plan - Volume III: 352 pp, a 19-page table of Arabic words. Green bindings, spines titled in gold (Freckling, map in vol. 2 with small cut, binding slightly damaged). Provenance: Bibliothèque orientaliste Maisonneuve, Paris Jean Louis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was an intrepid Swiss explorer and Orientalist, born in Lausanne. He spent two years in the Levant, where he learned the Koran. He visited Syria, including Palmyra and Damascus, and Lebanon. On one of these trips he discovered Petra. He decided to devote himself to his initial goal: finding the source of the Niger. He travelled to Cairo to join a caravan going to the Fezzann. In 1812, while waiting for the caravan to leave, he sailed on the Nile, discovered the temples of Abu Simbel, went as far as Dar Mahass and Dongola, crossed the Nubian desert, passing through Berber, Shendi and Suakin, a port on the Red Sea, from where he embarked for the hajj to Mecca via Jeddah. He stayed in Mecca for three months, then visited Medina. He returned to Cairo in June 1815. In the spring of 1816, he travelled to Mount Sinai, and died in Cairo the following year.
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