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. 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 Theodor Waitz (1863). Reading in part: “keep me alive as to the proceedings of the..... 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
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N.p: February 1863. A record of meteorological information off the coast of Angola and at the mouth of the Congo River Burton was stationed on the island of Fernando Po as consul and toward the end of July 1863 “he boarded HMS ‘Torch’ for a voyage down the coast to..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Manuscript, “Observations at the Congo Mouth Feb. 1863 / from Log of H.M.’s S. ‘Griffin’” Add to Wish List
Item #368677
Price: $17,500
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. “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 to the closed city of..... Read More Item Details for First Footsteps in East Africa; or, An Exploration of Harar Add to Wish List
Item #366685
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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: $8,500
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: $500
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
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: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. First edition. Read More Item Details for Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S Add to Wish List
Item #369669
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1876. First edition, remainder binding. Very sharp copy of Burton’s work on Central Africa and the Congo basin, drawing upon his travels in the early 1860s. Read More Item Details for Two Trips to Gorilla-Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Add to Wish List
Item #369670
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London: W.H. Harrison, 33 Museum Street, 1881. First edition. Read More Item Details for A Glance at The “Passion Play” Add to Wish List
Item #367144
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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 Item Details for The Land of Midian (Revisited) Add to Wish List
Item #211044
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
Price: $500
London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. Memorial Edition & Fourth Edition. Read More Item Details for Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah. Edited by His Wife, Isabel Burton Add to Wish List
Item #323858
Price: $7,500
London: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Innocence and Design is satirical novel and travel book about Persia (called Media in the book), written under the Waughburton pseudonym by Robert Byron and his friend Christopher Sykes, with illustrations by Sykes. This is Sykes’ copy of the first edition (with his signature on..... Read More Item Details for Innocence and Design by Richard Waughburton Add to Wish List
Item #367022
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London: The Hakluyt Society, 1929. First Edition. Second Series, Vol. LXIII. The four travellers were William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted and John Carmichael on the route through the Syrian Desert to Persia. Read More Item Details for The Desert Route to India, being the Journal of Four Travellers by the Great Desert Caravan Route between Aleppo and Basra 1745-1751 Add to Wish List
Item #316739
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[London: printed for the author at the Chiswick Press, April 1922]. First separate edition, 25 copies signed by the author, this copy numbered "Fourteen" Doughty's private edition of his review of D.G. Hogarth's Arabia (Clarendon Press, 1922), reprinted from The Observer 19 March 1922. David George Hogarth (1862-1927), archaeologist, Arabian..... Read More Item Details for Hogarth's "Arabia" Add to Wish List
Item #243962
Price: $1,150
London: Jonathan Cape, 30 Bedford Square, 1936. New and definitive edition. Read More Item Details for Travels in Arabia Deserta ... With an Introduction by T.E. Lawrence Add to Wish List
Item #317096
Price: $3,000
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1888. First edition. "And in truth if one live any time with the Aarab, he will have all his life after a feeling of the desert" (2:450). The classic of Arabian exploration, written in Doughty’s stately, mystical prose, here in the first edition with a...... Read More Item Details for Travels in Arabia Deserta Add to Wish List
Item #308323
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London: T. Neslon, 1888. Author's Edition. Read More Item Details for On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt Add to Wish List
Item #318596
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London: Eric Partridge Ltd, 1935. First edition. Number 485 of 500 copies printed of which 450 only were for sale. Read More Item Details for Annotations on Some Minor Writings of ‘T. E. Lawrence” by G Add to Wish List
Item #319067
Price: $225
London: W & G Foyle Limited [Printed by John Roberts Press Limited], 1928. First edition limited to 375 copies, this being number 172. Read More Item Details for Bibliographical Notes on T. E. Lawrence's ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ and ‘Revolt in the Desert’ Add to Wish List
Item #308334
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London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Second Impression. Read More Item Details for Islamic Society and the West. Islamic Society in the Eigteenth CenturyVolume I, Parts I & II Add to Wish List
Item #35786
Price: $900
Mayfield Sussex: 23rd Sept. 1979. Typescript published in: Into Battle. A Soldier's Diary of the Great War (Cassell, 1978). Nice late letter in a bold hand from Glubb Pasha, Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986), who served with distinction in France in the first world war, and was thrice wounded. Glubb’s..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed (“Glubb”), discussing his writing, and conveying a carbon typescript, “The Diary Chapter I. Zillebeke” and photograph, to Mr. [Lazlo] Magyar Add to Wish List
Item #316248
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London: Collins, 1939. First edition. Woman traveller across Siberia, Harbin, Korea, Japan, Peking, Yangtze, Shanghai, Nepal, Tibert, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan. Read More Item Details for Eastern Visas Add to Wish List
Item #316986