Travels in Nubia;
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1813)
Category
Books
Date
1819
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Powis Castle and Garden, Powys
NT 3169764
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], xcii, 543, [3]p., plates :. ill., port., maps (fold.) ;. 4to. Pastedown inscribed in pencil: duplicate at Powis Castle. Provenance: nineteenth-century bookplate: earl's coronet: H. A. Powis [i.e. Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), m. to Edward Clive, 2nd Lord Clive, 1st Ear Powis (3rd creation), (1754-1839)]. Chattels sold by Powis Castle Estate to the National Trust, 10th June 2010. Binding: nineteenth-century brown calf; double blind fillet and blind roll border; gilt tooled spine; gilt roll on board edges; gilt lettered spine label: Burckhardt's Travels in Nubia.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from John George Herbert, 8th Earl of Powis and the Powis Estate Trustees in June 2010.
Makers and roles
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1813) Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa..