Burton Richard 1821 (141 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. map, illustrations, xxiv, 368p. dj. 21cm. INSCRIBED by Dane Kennedy who wrote the New Introdution for this edition. Reprint of the 1851 edition with the addition of a New Introduction.

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page; originally published November 1924). 135, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Tan dust jacket toned particularly along spine; a few shallow chips and short tears at edges; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right. Blue cloth spine with gilt stamping; green boards lightly toned at edges. Dark top edge. O'Casey family Mississippi and Ireland genealogical-themed bookplate affixed upon front pastedown; ownership ink name stamp "Albert E. Casey, M.D." at top of front free endpaper and top of rear pastedown; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A nice edition of the classic Sir Richard Burton poem which he attributed to his pseudonym Haji Abdu El-Yezdi and added a "To the Reader" note by his pseudonymous translator F.B. for "Frank Baker." Also features twelve b/w plates (including frontispiece) from wood engravings by Wilfred Jones; part/chapter headpieces and tailpieces along with bottom margin page decorations are uncredited but presumably are also by Jones. Acquired from the estate of Birmingham, Alabama pathologist, bibliophile, and genealogist Dr. Albert Eugene Casey (1903-1982) who served as director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals from 1942-1972 and his wife Joanne Gunn Casey (1919-2023), a medical researcher who worked on the polio vaccine in the 1940s-1950s before joining her husband in studying genetic and hematological links to disease susceptibility and, in particular, cancer.…

Hunting Library Edition. An exceptional paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description: 109 pages: ill., maps; 26 cm. Subjects: Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Journeys Somalia. Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Travel Africa. Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Travel Saudi Arabia.Medina (Saudi Arabia) Description and travel. Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Description and travel. Somalia Description and travel. Benin Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

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Hunting Library Edition. An exceptional paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap. Physical description: 109 pages: ill., maps; 26 cm. Subjects: Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Journeys Somalia. Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Travel Africa. Burton, Richard Francis Sir 1821-1890 Travel Saudi Arabia.Medina (Saudi Arabia) Description and travel. Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Description and travel. Somalia Description and travel. Benin Description and travel. 1 Kg. …

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Bibliophile Books Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 156 pages: ill., col. plates, facsims., ports. ; 29cm. Subjects: Sanskrit literature Translations into English.English literature Translations from Sanskrit.Sex customs India. 1 Kg. …

Bibliophile Books Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 156 pages: ill., col. plates, facsims., ports. ; 29cm. Subjects: Sanskrit literature Translations into English.English literature Translations from Sanskrit.Sex customs India. 1 Kg. …

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Unpaginated (but 96 double-fold pages printed on Japanese Yamane paper). Designed, decorated and hand-illuminated by Angelo. 6-1/4" x 4-1/4" Binding slightly worn (edges & spine sunned). Slipcase worn and rubbed, and states "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" as the title to spine (still an LEC slipcase for the same size volume). A VG copy in an About VG slipcase, with a couple seams starting. Full bluish-purple morocco, boards stamped in blind and gilt stamped lettering to spine. Black two-part slipcase, gilt printed lettering to spine 1st edition thus (Newman & Wiche 92). SIGNED by Angelo. LIMITED to 1500 copies, of which this is no. 1014.…

Condition: A Fine copy in a Fine jacket. 1st Edition. [10], 109, [1 (blank)] pp. A few b/w photographic images and maps. 10-1/4" x 7-1/4" Green cloth binding with gilt title lettering stamped to spine. Dust jacket.

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now plastic-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 372 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Gelele King of Dahome. Burton, Richard Sir 1821-1890. Amazons. Black race. Explorers Benin History 19th century. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now plastic-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 372 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. Subjects: Gelele King of Dahome. Burton, Richard Sir 1821-1890. Amazons. Black race. Explorers Benin History 19th century. 1 Kg.…

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First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 143 pages; Description: 143 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. 1 Kg.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 143 pages; Description: 143 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 32 cm. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. XIX, 351 pages, include 5 page index, last two leaves still uncut. 25 x 18 cm.¾ red leather with slight wear. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Burton with facsimile of his signature, tissue-protected. Title printed in red and black. 1st edition of this collection of 3 essays unpublished before Burton's death in 1890. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; title & author lettered in gilt on spine. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, LD., London and Aylesbury. A collection of three essays which remained unpublished until 1898. Material was first collected while in the consular service at Damascus from 1869-71, but the manuscript was not finished until 1874 while in London. Twice he considered publishing it, but each time was advised to withhold it due to its anti-Semitic content. To this day, it is an embarrassment to Burton biographers and devotees. Burton began his research for "The Gypsy" while he was lieutenant in the Bombay Army quartered in Sindh, and continued gathering material for the next thirty years in his travels mostly in Asia, but also in Africa, South America, and Europe. In contrast with his hatred for Jews, he felt a close affinity to the Gypsies. His wife stated that although it was not certain whether he himself had Gypsy lineage, 'he showed many of their peculiarities in appearance, disposition, and speech - speaking Romany like themselves. Nor did he ever enter a Gypsy camp without their claiming him: "What are you doing with that black coat on?' they would say 'why don't you join us and be our king?'" Burton's close emotional tie to the Gypsy psyche make this ethnographic study especially rich and worthwhile the last essay was probably written soon after his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853, about the time of the poem "The Kasidah." It was an insider's look at the Muslim faith and way of life, since Burton lived amongst Arab pilgrims and visited their most sacred pilgrimage sites. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Arabic language, sexual practices and life. His work reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom as well as colloquialisms, philosophy, modes of thought and intimate details. Burton supported the blood libel of Damascus: The Infamous Damascus Blood Libel . Arnold Fine Jewish Press January 18, 2002: The canard that "Jews use Christian blood to make Passover matzos" plagued Jewish communities worldwide for centuries. The blood libel led to many massacres of Jews throughout the Middle Ages and pogroms in Russia, was revived by the Nazis, and has been used by anti-Zionists to our day. While it is well known that blood libels thrived in Christian Europe, it is less known that this scourge reached Moslem lands as well. The Damascus Blood Libel began in Syria in 1840. At that time, the great European powers were gravely concerned about the fate of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Syria was ruled by Muhammed Ali, then ruler of Egypt, and France supported his rule. Austria and Great Britain supported Turkey, and were anxious to prevent the extension of French influence in the Middle East. On February 5, 1840, an elderly Italian monk, Padre Tomaso de Camangiano, Superior of a Capuchin cloister in Damascus, vanished without a trace, together with his servant. Foul play was suspected. There was a rumor that a few days before the monk's disappearance, he had been involved in a quarrel with a Turkish mule driver. According to rumors, during the dispute, the Turk heard Father Tomaso blaspheme the prophet Muhammed and had sworn, "that dog of a Christian shall die by no other hand but mine!" Tomaso's fellow monks deliberately ignored this rumor, and preferred to spread the story that their Superior had been murdered by the Jews for ritual purposes. The French consul in Damascus at that time was a vicious individual by the name of Ratti Menton. He accepted the blood libel charges, and suggested that the investigation be turned over to. . . …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy of the first edition of THE source of information on swords by the noted British traveler Sir Richard Burton with 293 illustrations. In the original pictorial boards, corners bumped slightly. Spine, silver tooling & titles, edges bumped. Internally, half title, [9], (xii-xxxix), [1], [1], 2-299 pp, 293 illustrations, black end papers, printed in London by Spottiswoode. With its black slip case. (270*190 mm). This book traces the origin of the sword from prehistory to its full growth during the early Roman Empire. The author discusses the earliest weapons of stone, bone, horn and wood as well as variations. The swords covered include the sabre, broadsword, cutlass, scimitar, foil, and rapier as well as a host of other arms, including dirks, daggers, throwing knives, flails, and more. The text is enhanced by nearly 300 line drawings. Â FIRST EDITION of Burton's history of the sword as a weapon, intended to be the first of a three-volume work. "The history of the Sword is the history of humanity," he wrote, but his book "fell still-born on the public." On his death, his manuscript notes were so incomplete that no publisher would publish the subsequent volumes (Casada 27. Penzer 107/8). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1855, complete, 18 plates, including maps, plans, coloured & tinted lithographs. Three octavo volumes, in modern half red morocco over red marbled boards, some blind tooling. Spines, raised bands, gilt tooling, gilt titles to green morocco labels. Internally; Vol 1, frontis, [7], (viii-xiv), [1] errata, [1], [1], 2-388 pp, 1 map (folding), 3 pls (2 coloured). Vol 2, frontis, [2], [3], (iv) only, [1], 2-426 pp, 4 pl (3 tinted), 1 map (folding), & 1 plan. Vol 3, half title, frontis, [9], (x) only, [1], [1], [1], 2-448 pp, 8 pls (2 coloured), including 1 folding plan, Bound without the adverts, brown endpapers, some evidence of removed bookplates, all the seven of the lithographs in Volumes 1 & 2 have library stamps to verso (Bradford Library). (214*131). (Abbey Travel, 368; Penzer, pp. 43-50; Casada 53; Ghani 62). In 1853 Burton traveled in disguise as an Indian Muslim on a pilgrimage to Islam's two most sacred shrines, Mecca & Medinah. The publication of his account of the journey brought him fame as an adventurer and also as a man of considerable knowledge about Arabs, their customs and way of life. The present work reflects Burtons attraction to the Arabs and his belief that Islam is an equal to Christianity and Judaism.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 2 coloured maps & 1 coloured plate 2 volumes in brown half morocco (by H Southeran), over green marbled boards, gilt tooling, some wear to extremities. Spines, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Interiors; Vol 1, half title, folding map, [7], (viii-xii), [2], [1], 2-354 pp, 2 maps (large folding, coloured), 2 illustrations within text, 2 printers devices. Vol 2, half title, frontis, [5], (vi) only, [1], 2-381 pp, 1 pl (coloured), 2 printers devices, 1 illustration within text. Many pages uncut, t.e.g., book plate to fpds (Edwin Parsons). An excellent set. (186*122 mm). (Penzer p106-7. Casada 65). Cameron joined Burton on a mission to West Africa. The two explorers examined the interior of the Gold Coast, searching for evidence of its gold-producing potential. Cameron also plotted the course of the Ankobrah River, and together they sent back to Kew 151 plants native to the Gold Coast. . WELLER (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The Memorial Edition 1893, VG+ complete Two volumes in the publishers gilt pictorial black cloth, corners rubbed. Spines, gilt titles, edges rubbed. Internally, Vol 1, [11], (xii-xxviii), [2], [2], [1], 2-436 pp, 18 illustrations (including coloured folding map). Vol 2, [9], (x-xii), [2], [2], [1], 2-479 pp, 29 illustrations (some coloured), some light edge browning, top edges reddened, remainder cut. (214*139 mm). (Penzer p54-55). Burton followed the pilgrim route to Mecca, Penzer states that Burton was the 1st English Christian to enter Mecca of his own free will as a true Mohammedan pilgrim and not as a convert. SEDDAN T. BRANDARD J. etc (illustrator).…