Travels in Nubia;
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1813)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3054381
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],xcii,543,[1]p., plates : ill., port., maps ; 4to. Old Lyme Park library shelfmark label: "Case Q Shelf 5". "Thomas Legh, Esq. M.P." included in list of the Committee of the Association (following titlepage). Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate: Lyme. Signed J.F. Badeley fecit 1904. [i.e.: Thomas Wodehouse, 2nd Lord Newton (1857-1942)] (cf. Wilson & Lee 'Badeley' no. 119).. Binding: nineteenth-century half black morocco, blue cloth sides, edges uncut, gilt-lettered "Travels in Nubia". Gilt-stamped Legh crest at base of spine.
Makers and roles
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1813) Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa..