London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. Memorial. Orig gilt Pict Cloth. Two volumes. 246 & 305 pp, frontis both volumes. with notices of the so-called amazons, the grand customs, the yearly customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the slave trade and the negro's place in nature. Minor foxing but... More about A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome
NY: Knopf, 1941. Hardcover. 365 pp, ill, index, bibliography. "I wish I were a man, if I were I would be Richard Burton. But being only a woman, I would be Richard Burton's wife." Story of the woman who traveled nearly everywhere with her amazing husband. Near fine in vg dj. More about Sir Richard Burton's Wife
Benares: Kamashastra Society, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. 16 volumes. Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private subscribers only. A plain and literal translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments now entituled (sic) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night together with the supplemental Nights original edition. 1885 and 1886-1888... More about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
London: Smith Elder, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. First ed (with decorative border running scross entire front cover). 275 pp, 1 folding plate, 27 text ill. All edges gilt. Beveled boards. Penzer p 92, 93. Bound in grey cloth, black decorative border top/bottom on front cover enclosing design of Temple of... More about Etruscan Bologna
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. with a full account of the gold and diamond mines, also canoeing down 1,500 miles of the great river Sao Francisco from Sabara to the sea. First ed. Penzer pp 78-80. Two volumes: 443 & 478 pp. Plate & ill. in both volumes... More about Explorations of the Highlands of Brazil
London: Jon Van Voorst, 1852. First Edition - only 500 copies printed. Hardcover. First ed. 107 pp, 4 lithographed plates. Only 500 copies printed. Penzer p 41. After 10 years 257 copies remained for sale so the publisher recommended scrapping them and preparing a second edition. Thus the book is... More about Falconry in the Valley of the Indus
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 about A Glance at the Passion Play
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 about Goa and the Blue Mountains
London: Kegan Paul, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. A fortnight's tour in northwestern Arabia. First ed. 398 pp. Folding map at end. Penzer p 95,96. Burton traveled to the empty quarter of the Arabian peninsula in quest of native towns where King Solomon found gold. Bound in red silky cloth, beveled... More about The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities
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 about The Kasidah (Couplets
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 about The Lands of Cazembe
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 about Letters from the Battle-Fields of Paraguay
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 about The Nile Basin
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 about The Prairie Traveller
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 about Sind Revisited
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 about Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus
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 about Unexplored Syria
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 about Vikram and the Vampire
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 about Wanderings in Three Continents
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 about Wit and Wisdom From West Africa
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 about The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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 about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1926. First Edition. Soft cover. Volume LXIII No 6 - June 1926. viii + pp 481-596, ill, index and extra title page.Gudru & Gojjam (Abyssinia), Botletle River in S Africa near the Zambesi, Falklands Islands. VG+ in orig blue printed wraps. More about The Geographical Journal
London: John Murray, 1863. First Edition. Soft cover. Volume the Thirty-third. CXCII + pp 1-356 pp. Burke relief expedition in South Australia, Pekin (sic) to St Petersburg, Malay archipelago, Samuel Baker on a journey to Abyssinia, Richard Burton on Elephant Mountain, Livingstone on Lake Nyassa, Speke on the Upper Nile... More about The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London
London: Everett & Co, 1906. Second. Hardcover. 2 vol, each 291 pp, ill. Bibliography. Eminently readable biography of this great explorer. Consistently sought after. Attractive, very near frine set in orig. reg cloth. More about The Life of Sir Richard Burton
