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 about The Land of Midian (Revisited
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London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition. Read More about The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
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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 about The Gold Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-western...
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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 about Sind Revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, Etc
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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 about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah
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New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934. Angelo, Valenti. One of 1500. Read More about The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. A Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights...
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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 about Unexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, The Tulul El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern...
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Paris: Librairie Astra, n.d. Read More about The Perfumed Garden, a Manual of Arabian Erotology
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Athens [i.e., London]: Erotica Biblion Society, 1888. First edition, no. 114 of 250 copies. Read More about Priapeia, or the Sportive Epigrams of Divers Poets on Priapus Now First Completely Done into...
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Cosmopoli [i.e., London]: Printed by the Translators, 1890. First edition, second issue, number 432 of 500 copies. Read More about Priapeia or the Sportive Epigrams of divers Poets on Priapus. The Latin Text now for the first...
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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 about The Lands of Cazembe. Acerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and Annotated by Capt....
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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 about The Land of Midian (Revisited
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London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition. Read More about Etruscan Bologna
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New York: G. P. Putnam & Co. [R. Craighead, Printer], 1856. First American edition. First published in 1855. Read More about Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. With Introduction by Bayard Taylor
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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 about A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, now entitled The Book of...
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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 about Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, Being an Account...
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New York: Brentano's, 1926. Kettelwell, John. Large Paper edition. Number 21 of 50 copies signed by Kettelwell. ONE OF 50. Read More about The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî
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