8vo. Volume II, iv, 391 pp., [1], full calf, title gilt on raised spine, marbled endpapers and edges, appendix, index, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley London, second edition, 1831.

Synopsis

The author landed at Jeddah exploring the Western part of Central Arabia and the country West of Nejd. He died on his return trip to England at Cairo in 1816. The book was published posthumously. The two volumes are each distinct and independent, volume one contains not only an enumeration of the Bedouin tribes and a statement of their various local establishments, numbers and military force, but an account of their extra ordinary customs, manners and institutions; of their arts and sciences, dress, arms and many other particulars relative to that interesting race of Arabs. In the second volume Burckhardt compiled from such original information, both written and oral, a history of those Mohammedan sanctuaries and fierce enthusiasts, the Wahaby’s; tracing them from their earliest appearance as reformers, in the previous century, through their wars with other Arabs and with the Turks up until 1816.
Bibliofraphic references: Gay 3606; Rohricht p. 345.