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20898New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. N.D. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Introduction by Henry M. Stanley dated 1898. Present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author was serving as an English officer in the Government of The Congo Free State from 1894 - 1897 and witnessed cannibalism among many other adventures. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxx 299 pages . Thomas Y. Crowell & Company hardcover
189852544New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell n.d. 1898. First American edition 8vo pp. xxx 3-299 1; 100 photographic illustrations throughout many full-page; original decorative green cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed very good. Czech Africa p. 29: "A former English army officer Burrows was hired by the Belgian government as district commander of the Upper Well-Mobanghi region of the Congo. Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. unknown
1974121148Chamber of Mines of South Africa 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7 in- 9 in Tall. Ex-library. Hard cover no dust jacket good condition. Libraryy narkings <br/> <br/> Chamber of Mines of South Africa hardcover
1932051461Paris: Editions Pierre Roger 1932. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folios. 448; 843 pages. Hardcovers bound in green half morocco with green marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate rubbing and wear to the binding. There is a little split at the headcap of Volume II. Hinges just a little rubbed but quite sound. Rubbing along the edges of the boards. The second front flyleaf of Volume I is creased and the first and second front flyleaves of Volume II are creased including the marbled front flyleaf. A sound set. Text is a bit toned but clean. Illustrated with photos and maps including a few folding maps. Original paper wrappers bound in. Text is in French. A nice and attractive set. Scarce. <br/> <br/> Editions Pierre Roger hardcover
19074557Cape Town: Townshend Taylor & Snashall. 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light shelfwear. ; Still under British rule South Africa as of 1907 is examined here. Numerous statistics photos and maps ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 316 pages . Townshend, Taylor, & Snashall hardcover
18813840London: W H Harrison 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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 presentation copy in orig. red gilt cloth slightly darkened at edges & spine. Endpaper cracked but hinges are firm. Rare in orig. cloth. Better than vg. W H Harrison hardcover
1966011699London England: Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1966 1966. 372pp including index b&w illustrations map clean copy in like illustrated DJ has light wear. Not price-clipped. A re-issue of Burton's 'Mission to Gelele' 2 volumes published 1864. Clean. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Routledge and Kegan Paul: 1966 Hardcover
18693833London: Tinsley Brothers 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. with a full account of the gold and diamond mines also canoeing down 1500 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. Folding map opp. p 1 in vol 2. Burton was consul at Sao Paulo in 1856 and before taking his posting he went to Brazil to explore the country and sail down the river. VG in original cloth. Double blind border on covers enclosing large stamped design in gold of an India.VG very light foxing. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
18523836London: Jon Van Voorst 1852. First Edition - only 500 copies printed. Hardcover. Near Fine. 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 now RARE. Bound in dark purple cloth with gilt blind border enclosing corner & center designs on both covers. Gilt spine lettering. Burton's falconry experiences while in Sind in Northern India. A work that still today is of great interest to falconers and Burton collectors. Lovely very near fine to fine in all respects. Jon Van Voorst hardcover
18793831London: Tinsley Brothers 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. VG to vg. 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 dispute with Brazil Argentina and Uruguay. Blound in blue cloth ornamental border in bind on both covers. Gold lettering. First signature slightly loose but holding otherwise vg to vg in original cloth. Considered somewhat rare in orig. cloth. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
192452653New York: Robert M. McBride and Co 1924. First edition American issue of the British sheets; 8vo pp. 240; original cream cloth-backed boards printed paper label on spine; upper cover with a few light scratches else near fine throughout. Casada 58: "In this work Penzer brings together ten obscure articles by Burton with the intention of giving the reader a fuller understanding of the man. Robert M. McBride and Co unknown
18773826London: Richard Bentley 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. VG to near Fine. 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 works and discussed the region's future. Lovely vg to near fine set bound in 3/4 leather raised spine bands gilt rules gilt borders in bands. Engraved bookplates Charles Waterman Armour both volumes. The book appears never read part of volume 2 is unopened. Richard Bentley hardcover
18513855London: Wm H Allen 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. 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 blind oval design on both covers. Gold lettering. The book has been scarce almost since it was published. Sindh is today's Pakistan. VG copy in orig. cloth. Large folding map not called for pasted neatly opposite title page. Bookplates of Mission House library inside front cover and Political Department nicely written on title page. Little soiling upper left hand part of spine. Rare in original cloth. Wm H Allen hardcover
199013714San Marino CA: Huntington Library 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Authors 110 pp bound in green cloth. Clean and tight. Dust jacket has a few rubbed spots. Inscribed in October 1990 by Hayman to Burton scholar and bibliographer James Casada. Huntington Library calendar listing the two-day Burton conference laid in. Includes the text of four lectures Burton presented in Brazil in 1866 now housed at the Huntington. Two lectures discuss Burton's visits to Mecca and Medina and the other two discuss his journeys to Harar and Dahomey where he tried to persuade King Gelele to abandon the practice of human sacrifice. Huntington Library hardcover
18943843London: privately printed 1894. Small paper edition of 1000 copies. Hardcover. VG. now first completely Englished into verse and prose. Small paper edition 1000 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. Burton died before this was published so the prose portion was completed by L. SMithers. After the success of the Arabian Nights Burton decided to take on translation of another erotic work. VG in orig. vellum over paper boards. Little wear at corners spine nice. Crisp & clean throughout. Housed in a folding cloth covered case and then in a slipcase with gilt leather spine over cloth. Raised bands on spine. Box is a little better than vg showing wear at tips on edge of raised bands and corners. However it has protected the book. privately printed hardcover
186052513London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1860. First edition likely the second issue; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; vi 2 468; engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green 12 chromoxylographs 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; the plates all with a small and discreet stamp in the margin not touching the image and the map with an old paper repair at the folds on the verso; otherwise a fine copy. There were two issues each in a different cloth binding. As the book has been rebound we can't be sure which issue this is except that the map is in volume II in this set which is where it should be in the second issue. Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-67. Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts unknown
18733832London: Royal Geographical Society 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. VG to near Fine. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and annotated by Capt. R.F. Burton. Penzer pp 8990. 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 and a resume of Monteiro Angola and the River Congo. Burton's portion of the book ends on p 164. Bound in blue cloth double blind borders both covers gold lettering. First edition. VG to near fine copy. Royal Geographical Society hardcover
18643837London: Tinsley Brothers 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 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 and lacking in a majority of copies. First ed bound in purple brown cloth with triple line border on covers. Little better than a VG copy. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
188352639London: Chatto & Windus 1883. First edition small 8vo 2 volumes pp. xii 2 354 2 32 Chatto & Windus ads; vi 381 3; 2 folding maps chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron who was the first European to cross central Africa 1873-75 to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right. Chatto & Windus unknown
187652519London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1876. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xiv 2 261 1; vi 2 255 i.e. 355 1; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary unrecorded binding of original blindstamped terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines. Sir Richard Burton 1821-90 is well known for his colorful career recorded in numerous books and articles as a diplomat explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface Burton writes that the "plain truth" about the African has not been told in Britain declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved "a remarkable failure." First published in 1876 the second volume recounts a journey made from Fernando Po to Loango Bay and up the Congo River. Of particular interest is the penultimate chapter "The slaver and the missionary in the Congo River" in which Burton expresses his ambivalence towards a European presence in Africa. Volume 2 also includes appendices containing geographical observations. Penzer p. 94; Spink 56; Casada 66: "This work covers the Fan people and the region of the lower Congo. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle unknown
18723863London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. 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 inserted the plates incorrectly so the list of illustrations is faulty and the plates are bound in different order in different copies. Burton COnsul at Damascus 1865-1871 traveled to Syria to explore it and Lebanon. Nicely bound in half leather over marbled boards marbled endpapers raised spine bands gilt rules on bands. A good looking set showing little wear. Scarce. VG. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
18703865London: Longman's Green 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. 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 rules in bands contrasting colored spine labels gilt rules both covers gilt inner dentelles marbled enpapers. Longman's Green hardcover
18653841London: Tinsley Brothers 1865. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good. 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. Second edition with the title Negro Wit and Wisdom on the spine. An important work. 455 pp. Penzer p 75 76 described this book as RARE especially if in good condition. Bound in brick red cloth with blind triple border enclosing design in blind on both covers. Burton wanted to give readers an insight into the Negro mind and thoughts. Clean and nice internally orig. endpapers lightly soiled. Recased in orig. cloth strengthened at spine tips. Orig. spine in fair condition with wear to gilt and relaid. Housed in a burgundy cloth case and then in a marbled paper slipcase with gilt leather spine label. Tinsley Brothers hardcover
187252516London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First edition first issue binding 2 volumes 8vo pp. xii 2 503 1; vi 2 519 1; folding map highlighted in blue 11 wood-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth gilt vignette on upper covers both volumes neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and half-title; a good sound copy. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue no. 49; Penzer pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is in my opinion among the most important of his African-related studies. Tinsley Brothers unknown
18974415London: H S Nichols 1897. Edition de Luxe reprint - Coffin Set. Hardcover. Fine/Original box fair. Letchford A. 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 of these is Style C described in the prospectus as follows: In three quarter levant Selected Syrian large grained Angora goat skins. Sumac tanned of the characteristoics Damascus red. Full gold black and five double bands Grolier corners gold tops tooled sides silk head bands triple cord stitching hollow backs rein forced joints gold veined end papers. The twelve volumes enclosed in a leather casket 23" x 12.5" x 8.5 " to place on an ordinary bookshelf or stand on a table. The casket in olive green morocco lined soft cloth with a spring lock and key of oriental design this set does Not have the key. It contains the 71 Letchford plates printed on special paper. Volumes over 400 pages each. The set was issued at L1515s each. There were 500 such sets. All 12 of the books in this set are Fine appearing as if never read or opened. The case however has seen better days. The leather is dried and cracking and chipped and the inside shows its age. Repeat the key is missing. A very scarce and stunning set. H S Nichols hardcover
