The Lands of Cazembe, Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 by Burton, Captain Richard Francis - 1969

Brand New.

John Murray, 1873. -. Ex-library copy with usual marks,hinges are broken front and back,boards are worn and torn, large chunk missing from spine-edge, fold out map is present but detached. Acceptable as reading copy or artifact. Poor condition.

Vanity Fair, Oct 24, 1885. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm.

London: John Murray, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, John Murray, 1872. Octavo, pages 49-61 plus a folding map (with the route added in red). Original blind-stamped blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine; cloth a little rubbed at the extremities, with trifling wear to the head and foot of the spine (a little sunned); edges a little foxed and marked, with the top edge dust-stained; inner hinges and chips to the front flyleaf neatly consolidated; occasional light foxing; trifling signs of handling; a very good copy. Burton was Consul to Damascus from 1869 to 1872. Other articles (each containing a large folding map with added colour) include BURTON, Richard Francis and Charles F. Tyrhwitt DRAKE: Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus (pages 408-425); FORREST, Alexander: Account of an Expedition to explore South-Western Australia eastward of the Settled Districts and beyond Hampton Plains (pages 388-390); ELTON, Captain Frederick: Journal of an Exploration of… Read More

London: H.S. Nichols Ltd, 1897. Leather Bound. A set of twelve quarto volumes (26 x 18 cms), each uniformly-bound in 3/4 wine-red leather over woven green cloth, with marbled endpapers and the top edges gilt. All volumes remain tightly-bound, with minor evidence of rubbing to the extremities. Each volume carries a rather nice bookplate of J. H. Burton, depicting a schooner in full sail bordered by mermaids. The bookplate is initialled "HN" (Harold Nelson, famed British bookplate designer, artist, and engraver). Internally, all volumes are in excellent condition and appear to have been seldom read or even opened. The words "Kamashastra Edition" appear at the bottom of the spine of each volume. The magnificent "Library Edition" of The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R. F. Burton and reprinted from the original 1885 privately-circulated Kamashastra Society edition. It is edited by Leonard C. Smithers and illustrated by a series of seventy-one inserted… Read More