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WALLIN, GEORG AUGUST & ELMGREN, S.G. (Ed.): - Reseanteckningar från Orienten åren 1843-1849. Dagbok och bref, efter resandens död utgifna. Four volumes. Helsingfors, Frenckell & Son, 1864 - 1866.
. Pp. xxxii, 407; (iv), 450; (iv), 510; (iv), 383. With one engraved portrait, two folding maps, one music plate and one folding plate of inscriptions. Original printed wrappers bound in. Later (first half of 20th century) marbled paper boards, flat calf spines decorated and lettered in gilt. Bookplate (Ragnar Dahlberg). A handsome copy.First edition, posthumously published, based on Wallin's diary and letters written during expeditions into the interior of Arabia. His first journey was made in 1845 to report on the political developments at a time when the region was striving for independence from Egyptian rule. Disguised as a horse trader, he travelled across the Nafud to the Jubbah, Ha'il and the Shammar Mountains. From Ha'il, Wallin joined a caravan of Persian Shia pilgrims to Mecca and Medina. Wallin's second journey took him across the Hijaz Mountains to Tabuk in north-eastern Saudi Arabia. He continued to Tayma (oasis) on the edge of Wahhabi territory and became the first European to set foot there. His journey finally ended in Basra. In 1850 he returned to Finland, where he was appointed professor of oriental languages at the University of Helsinki. Aalto pp 37-40. Röhricht 2038.
EUR 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2141.16 | £UK 1714.75 | JP¥ 338846] Booknumber: 121414
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EUR 2000.00 [Appr.: US$ 2141.16 | £UK 1714.75 | JP¥ 338846] Booknumber: 121414
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