Fennia: First Edition (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated with maps (some folding), photographs, large octavo, pp [4), 120; 81; 96, very clean internally, paperback, covers chipped and slightly worn, with four seperate folding maps in very good condition.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. No DW. 1st Edition. Bound by WESTMINSTER PUBLIC LIBRARIES in brown cloth and with various of their marks and stamps etc. Maps in pocket at rear.

1st edition card covers Very Good octavo 120 + 81 + 96pp., b/w pls., text ills., fldg. maps, Guidebook to Excursions E.F. 1; E.F. 2 ; E.F. 3. Inc. large folding colour maps in rear pocket. Rear wrapper detached o/w nice copy.

geheftet, ohne Einband. Condition: gut. 25 S., 20 cm, ungeschnitten, papierbedingt leicht gebräunt und stockfleckig, Rand mit Läsuren. Sprache: lat Erstausgabe.

Helsingforsiae 1833, 4°, 61, (1) pp., feine Broschur. First Edition.

Together 3 works. 1) Reseanteckningar Från Orienten åren 1843-1849: FIRST EDITION. 4 vols. 8vo. (18.5 x 12 cm). pp.xxxii+407; 450; 510; 383. Contemporary half brown roan over black papered boards, spines with raised bands and lettered in gilt. Engraved portrait frontispiece of the author in Arab garb, one sheet of Arabic music, 2 engraved folding maps (Nile, Arabian Peninsula), and one engraved folding plate. Spines a bit rubbed and sunned, one small area of partial loss to spine of Vol.3 due to worming, generally a very good set. 2) Första Resa från Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (21.5 x 14 cm). pp.vii+126. Contemporary cloth backed marbled boards with manuscript title label. Old ownership inscription of G. Bjorkstein to flyleaf. Engraved map to rear. Some text in Arabic. Boards a bit rubbed, generally a very good copy. 3) De Praecipua inter Hodiernam Arabum Linguam et Antiquam Differentia Dissertatio, quam Venia Ampl. Ordinis Philos. ad Imperialem Alexandream in Fennia Universitatem: FIRST EDITION. 12mo. (18.5 x 11.5 cm). pp.47+[1]. Near contemporary rose wrappers, author's last name to front cover in blue crayon. Text in Latin and Arabic. Old pencil ownership inscription to title-page. Some light fading to wrappers, generally a very good copy. 1) 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. 2) First edition, published posthumously in the original Swedish, of an account of Wallin s principal journey through Arabia, unknown to most bibliographers: "It was not until two years after his death", writes Henze, "that the report of his first (and most important) journey (performed in 1845, a year before the appearance of the first volume of Carl Ritter's Arabia ) was published". This refers to the English "Narrative of a Journey from Cairo to Medina and Mecca", which was printed in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1854. In fact, an extensive account of the first leg of this highly significant journey was first given to the world in December 1853, only a little more than a year after the author s death. In contrast with the later JRGS publication, the present work includes an appendix rendering Arabic terms and phrases that occur throughout the text in the original language and script. It is not clear to us whether Wallin left it incomplete or whether the publisher chose to abridge it, but the title-page calls it a "fragment". In 1845, proceeding southeast across the wastelands of the Nafud Desert, he reached Ha il then continued by force of circumstances southward to Medina and Mecca. From there he returned to Egypt (Howgego). More precisely, he "moved eastwards from Wadi al-Araba, first touching upon the upper regions of Wadi Sirhan, then on to the oasis of Djuf (Algawf) and crossed the central regions of Shammar, via Djobbah ( Gubbi ), the Great Nefud (Nufood), and Hail. Of Shammar and its inhabitants he provided the fullest account, unsurpassed by later travellers in its scholarly precision" (Henze). 3) First edition of Wallin's dissertation on the differences between classical and modern Arabic.…

First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. First edition. Partly printed in Arabic. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed. 47, (1) p. First edition of Wallin's dissertation on the differences between classical and modern Arabic. Georg Augustus Wallin (18111852) was a Finnish orientalist and explorer. He travelled the Arab world for six years, and disguised himself as Muslim to gain acceptance in the two holy Islamic cities, Mecca and Medina, which at the time were still forbidden to holders of other faiths. . Pages slightly dusted. Overall in very good condition. Unbound as published. Partly unopened. Untrimmed.…