Author: BUCKINGHAM, James Silk (?*) BURCKHARDT, M. (also Hadji Ibrahim)
Title: Travels of M. Burckhardt in Egypt and Nubia. From the Calcutta Journal.
Description: London, Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. Bride-Court, Bridge-Street. 1819. Disbound from a larger volume, 32 pp. In very good condition. Clean, crisp. *Extracts from an unnamed traveller's journal recounting his meetings with Burckhardt, together with several letters from Burckhardt to the author. The unnamed diarist is almost certainly James Silk Buckingham. (Compare the journal entry for Nov. 27 1813 in this work with a similar passage in Buckingham's autobiography). 'From the Calcutta journal'. Published as no. 5 of v. 2 of the publisher's New Voyages and Travels. Letters, some signed by the writer's Mohammedan name: Ibrahim, or, Hadj Ibrahim. (COPAC) .

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