Price: $1,750
Trieste: 1886. Trieste May 13 / 86 Dear Mr. [Mitchell?] Yours of May 7 received yesterday. We have been on a visit to the interior. Came back and found copyist had been idle. I cannot decide about copyist till we ? the sheets F. K. came all right but no..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“R.F. Burton”), dated Trieste 13 May 1886 Add to Wish List
Item #367147
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Trieste: 1876. 'I am pledged to you in that matter and I should openly refuse their assistance'. Burton’s correspondent, J. Frederick Collingwood, was secretary/librarian of the Anthropological Society of London, before its amalgamation with the Ethnological Society into the Anthropological Institute; Collingwood was also translator of Introduction to Anthropology by..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“R.F. Burton”), to J. Frederick Collingwood, dated 17 August 1876, deploring the state of the Anthropological Institute Add to Wish List
Item #367145
Price: $1,750
1889. Burton and The Scented Garden. The second attempt at a biography of the legendary explorer, linguist, and author Richard F. Burton, utilizing the contents of a short "Sketch" by Richards, Burton's closest friend at Oxford (published in 1880 and unobtainably rare), with new material bringing his life up to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Richard F. Burton”), to a prospective subscriber to a new edition of The Perfumed Garden, datelined Milan, 23 February 1889. [Bound with:] A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton (London, 1886) Add to Wish List
Item #366882
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London: Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square, 1886. First and only edition. Translated by Richard and Isabel Burton. “Translations, the publishers assure us, are not popular in England. So much the worse. Surely a good tale imported from a foreign source is worth a dozen of the flimsy ‘sensation novels,’..... Read More Item Details for Manuel de Moraes A Chronicle of the Seventeenth Century. By J.M. Pereira da Silva. Translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton. [Bound after:] Iraçéma The Honey-Lips A Legend of Brazil. By J. de Alencar. Translated, with the Author's permission, by Isabel Burton Add to Wish List
Item #366861
Price: $17,500
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. WITH THE RARE APPENDIX IV. “Exceedingly rare and practically unobtainable" (Penzer). Barely a year after returning from his pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina Burton set out once again in disguise, this time as an Arab merchant, with the intention of travelling..... Read More Item Details for First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar Add to Wish List
Item #366685
Price: $3,000
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. No ads. This is Burton's second expedition to Midian (Saudi Arabia). He mapped and explored over 600 miles of territory and discovered many sites. The hope of a gold discovery didn't happen and Burton lost his potential backer, the Egyptian Khedive..... Read More Item Details for The Land of Midian (Revisited) Add to Wish List
Item #321010
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Read More Item Details for The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California Add to Wish List
Item #317049
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London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1878. First edition. In 1877, Burton sought to raise money from the Khedive of Egypt for a project to revive the gold mines at Midian near the Red Sea cost. “Burton took a ‘preliminary canter’ into Midian to size up the ground and assess..... Read More Item Details for The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western Arabia Add to Wish List
Item #315951
Price: $2,250
London: Richard Bentley, 1877. First edition. Burton’s return visit to the lands, and annotations to the text, of his 1851 book, Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley. An attractive copy. Read More Item Details for Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc Add to Wish List
Item #315945
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London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855-56. First edition. "In 1852 Burton proposed to the Royal Geographical Society that he make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have visited them and..... Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah Add to Wish List
Item #314798
Price: $1,250
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. Account of the lands and tribes of Syria, written by Burton and Drake while Burton was British consul in Damascus. Drake had walked from the Sinai through desert Palestine with Edward Palmer on the first surveying expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Burton was..... Read More Item Details for Unexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, The Tulul El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern Libanus and the ‘Alah Add to Wish List
Item #308355
Price: $75
Paris: Librairie Astra, n.d. Read More Item Details for The Perfumed Garden, a Manual of Arabian Erotology Add to Wish List
Item #266087
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[London: 1864]. Read More Item Details for Extract from Journal of the Anthropological Society pp. ccxxix-ccxxxiv including letter from RFB on p. ccxxx on the Annabom Islands Add to Wish List
Item #255336
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Cosmopoli [i.e., London]: Printed by the Translators, 1890. First edition, second issue, number 432 of 500 copies. Read More Item Details for Priapeia or the Sportive Epigrams of divers Poets on Priapus. The Latin Text now for the first time Englished in Verse and Prose (the Metrical Version by “Outidanos”) and Introductions. Notes Explanatory and Illustrative, and Excursus, by “Neaniskos” Add to Wish List
Item #226356
Price: $600
London: Published by the Royal Geographical Society. John Murray, 1873. First Edition. Burton's contribution to this volumes ends on page 164. "He had, however, written two appendices, which, being of a controversial and critical nature [quelle surprise], were rejected by the R.G.S. These appendices ... were published privately at Trieste..... Read More Item Details for The Lands of Cazembe. Acerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and Annotated by Capt. R.F. Burton Add to Wish List
Item #211058
Price: $3,500
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First Edition. This is Burton's second expedition to Midian (Saudi Arabia). He mapped and explored over 600 miles of territory and discovered many sites. The hope of a gold discovery didn't happen and Burton lost his potential backer, the Egyptian Khedive. Read More Item Details for The Land of Midian (Revisited) Add to Wish List
Item #211044
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London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition. Read More Item Details for Etruscan Bologna Add to Wish List
Item #211041
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New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. [R. Craighead, Printer], 1856. First American edition. First published in 1855. Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. With Introduction by Bayard Taylor Add to Wish List
Item #314159
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Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only [i.e. The Burton Society], 1885-1888. Limited numbered facsimile edition of the first edition, no. 12 of 250 issued by the Burton Society of Denver, Colorado for Private Circulation. Illustrated Facimile of the First Burton Edition. A fine facsimile of the..... Read More Item Details for A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night [WITH:] Supplemental Nights Add to Wish List
Item #252363
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Trieste: Monday August 2, [1886]. Dear Mr. Smithers, I like your enclosure and have sent it on to Wymans. Please have a look at my idea of a binding. Green & gold for the [?] of the [Brazil?]. Can you put your artist to draw it not to [?] it..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“R.F. Burton”), to Leonard Smithers, concerning a bookbinding Add to Wish List
Item #241829
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Westminster [London]: Printed for Machell Stace, 1811. A New Edition, with Additional Wood-Cut Portraits, and a Copious Index. Read More Item Details for Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Being an Account of Many Remarkable Persons and Places; and Likewise of Battles, Sieges, Earthquakes, Innundations, Thunders, Lightnings, Fires, Murders … Add to Wish List
Item #232853
Price: $250
New York: Brentano's, 1926. Kettelwell, John. Large Paper edition. Number 21 of 50 copies signed by Kettelwell. ONE OF 50. Read More Item Details for The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî Add to Wish List
Item #33619