8vo. Volume II: [2], 431 pp., 3 folding plans, contemporary full calf gilt, covers with double-fillet border, spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco lettering-pieces in the second and third compartments, the others with repeat decoration of a double-fillet border in gilt, marbled endpapers & edges, published by authority of the Association For Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley London, second edition, 1829.

Synopsis

John Lewis Burckhardt ( 1784 – 1817), the son of a Swiss Colonel undertook the journey to Mekkah in 1814, disguised as an Arab; he had long since used the name Sheikh Ibrahim in his travels, which he began in 1809 under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks and the African Association. Burckhardt’s description of the Hedjaz was the first accurate one to reach Europe. According to Leake in his preface… ” Burckhardt transmitted to the Association the most accurate and complete account of the Hedjaz, including the cities of Mekka and Medina, which has ever been received in Europe.” The folding plans include Makkah, Madinah, Wady Muna and Arafat. [Blackmer 239; Gay 3606.]