8vo. Volume I: xxi, [3], 452 pp., folding frontispiece map, 1 folding plan / Volume II: iii, [1], 431 pp., 3 folding plans, later blue half morocco, upper edges gilt, gilt & decorated spines, some tiny tears to folds of map, marbled endpaper, without the advertisement leaf, edited by William Ouseley, second edition, Henry Colburn, London, 1829.

Synopsis

First 8vo edition of this posthumous work edited by William Ouseley. The 4to edition appeared earlier the same year. Under the patronage of Muhammed Ali Pasha, and using his own knowledge of Arabic and Koranic law ‘to assume the Muselman character’, Burckhardt entered Mecca in 1814 and stayed for three months.
John Lewis Burckhardt , the son of a Swiss Colonel undertook the journey to Mecca in 1814, disguised as an Arab; he had been using the name Sheikh Ibrahim during his travels, which he began in 1809 under the sponsorship of Sir Joseph Banks and the African Association. According to William Leake in his preface… ” Burckhardt transmitted to the Association the most accurate and complete account of the Hedjaz, including the cities of Mecca and Medina, which has ever been received in Europe.” The folding plans include Mecca, Medina, Wady Muna and Arafat.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 239 for second edition; Gay 3606; Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 627; Howgego II, B76; Weber I, 168; Graesse I, 575; Henze I, 407; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 106 (second edition only); Not in Atabey.