Norwalk CT: Easton Press, 1992. Reprint. Hardcover. 275 pp, ill, silk end papers, full elaborate gilt stamped leather and all edges gilt. A fine reprint presentation of a scarce anf wonderful work of exploration on the Dark Continent. For anyone not wanting to spring thousands for the first edition, this..... More
London: W H Harrison, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 168 pp. Penzer p 106. Becoming scarce. Burton traveled to Bavaria to see if there was any connection between the survival of "Christian Mystery" (the great religious drama in the highlands of Bavaria) and the living scenes at Ek-Islam and Meccah. Publisher's..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. or, six months of sick leave. First ed, first issue. 368 pp, frontis, 3 plates on tinted paper, 1 folding map. Penzer p 37, 38. Bound in light fawn cloth with blind ornamental border on both covers, gold lettering on back. Burton's first..... More
CA: Book Club of California, 1919. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Hardcover. pf Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, a Lay of the Higher Law. 51 pages, Large format. Deckle edged (rough cut) paper. A philosophical poem painting the colors of the desert and the walking caravan at dawn. Fine, almost as new..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and annotated by Capt. R.F. Burton. Penzer pp 89,90. 271 pp, 1 folding map in front. Together with the description of another trip by Amaro Jose across Africa from Angola to Tete on the Zambeze..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. with map and illustrations. FIrst ed. 481 pp. Engraved frontis, vignette on title page. Burton resigned from his work in Brazil because of sickness but rather than return to London right away, he decided to visit Paraguay which was then in a border..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Part 1 showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's western lake reservoir by Richard Burton and Part 2 Captain Speke's DIscovery of the Source of the Nile by James McQueen. Penzer p 74, 75. First ed. Very scarce. LACKS THE MAPS (which are considered rare..... More
London: Trubner & Company, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. A Handbook for Overland Expeditions. With illustrations, itineraries of the principal routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific and a Map. By Randolph Marcy...edited and with notes by RIchard F. Burton. First ed. 251 pp, one folding map, one plate, 12 text..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. with notices of the Anglo Indian Army, railroads, past, present and future, etc. First edition. 2 volumes: 343 & 331 pp. Penzer p 94, 95. After a brief visit to Sind (then part of India, now Pakistan), Burton added material to his earlier..... More
London: Wm H Allen, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. with notices of the topography and history of the province. 422 pp, Penzer p 40. Burton worked with the Bombay Army survey and eventually traveled to the annexed Sindh province in 1851. Bound in terra cotta cloth with blind triple border enclosing..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulul el Safa, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus and the Ala. First ed. Penzer pp 85-88. Two volumes: 360 pp, folding map, plates, text ill. 400 pp, plates & text ill. In most of the copies the binder..... More
London: Longman's Green, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. or Tales of Hindu Devilry. Penzer p 82. 319 pp, ill. All edges gilt. Stories were adapted by Burton from a Hindu version of vampire stories. Splendidly bound in full leather with original front cover laid in at rear. Raised spine bands, gilt..... More
London: Hutchinson, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pp, 5 plates. Penzer p 158-9. First ed. Red buckram, beveled edges, gold lettering, stamped portrait of Burton on front. Covers his travels in El Medinah, Mecca, Harar, the heart of Africa, City of the Mormons, Dahome, Congo, Brazil & Syria. Internally nice..... More
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. or, a book of proverbial philosophy, idioms, enigmas and Laconisms compiled by Richard F Burton, Lake HM's Consul for the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po. First edition of this important work. 455 pp. Penzer p 75, 76 described this book as RARE..... More
London: privately printed, 1894. Small paper edition of 1,000 copies. Hardcover. now first completely Englished into verse and prose. Small paper edition, 1,000 copies. Printed on hand made paper for private circulation only. Copy #124. 313 pp. Penzer p 156, 157.One of the more erotic books produced in the 1890s..... More
London: H S Nichols, 1897. Letchford, A. Edition de Luxe reprint - Coffin Set. Hardcover. Penzer p 20. This is the "coffin set" or boxed 1897 edition printed by Nichols. Of all the reprints, the second best (after the true first) is the Nichols edition of 1897. The most elaborate..... More
London: Ackermann, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. illustrative of the wild life of a hunter on the frontier of the Cape Colony. Folio sized. 16 pp + 15 plates, hand colored and b/w lithographs. Hunting adventures in the Cape Colony. Plates depict various related sporting scenes: buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, eland, leopard..... More
London: Constable, 1927. First. Hardcover. An account of journeys in Kansu, Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. 304 pp, ill, folding map in rear. VG in original cloth binding. More
NYeri, Kenya: Mission Printing School, 1933. First Ed. In English. Orig. Cloth. their customs, traditions and folklore. 324 pp. ill. folding map. New end papers. Orig. spine relaid. The first account of the Kikuyu tribe. Extrenely scarce. More
Mazoe Rhodesia: Frank Read Press, 1982. First Limited to 250 Copies. Half Leather. 218 pp. Elephant folio. A completely handmade book. Copy #9 of only 250. All presubscribed prior to publication. Following the enthusiastic reception and mountains of compliments garnered by the first tribute to Caldwell, Frank Read Press did..... More
London: E&FN Spon, 1873. First. Hardcover. The silver country and Vazeers in KULU. Its beauties, antiquities and silver mines. including a trip over the lower Himalayah (sic) range and glaciers, with numerous illustrations. 102 pp, text ill and lovely lithographed plates. The work originally appeared as a series of magazine..... More
NY: Facts on File, 1984. First American. Hardcover. 248 pp, ill incl some in color. The Himalayas and the mountains of Central Asia. Pathfinders, climbers, explorers and scientists. Fine in fine dj. More
Exeter, England: Webb & Bower, 1982. Simkin, R. First. Hardcover. 222 pp. Index. Profuse colored illustrations. More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1929. First. Hardcover. being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1752. 196 pp, ill. large folding map. A fine copy in orig. gilt and blindstamped cloth andvg+ jacket. More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1929. First. Hardcover. being the journals of four travellers by the great desert caravan route between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751. 196 pp. ill. folding map of Syria and Mesopotamia. Journeys of Beawes, Roberts, Plaisted and Carmichael. More
