Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, Sir.] Wanderings in West Africa . . . By a F. R. G. S. Folding lithographed map in first volume, wood-engraved plate in second. Half-titles. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, original dark purple cloth, bindings slightly cocked, spines faded, ends chipped, hinges cracked. 19th-century leaf of subscription library regulations mounted upside down on Volume 2 rear pastedown. London, 1863

Additional Details

first edition. first(?) issue, with Burton''s name omitted on the spines, and with the publisher''s imprint on one line. His anonymous publication of the book reflected his displeasure with the Royal Geographical Society over the Speke controversy. Casada 70; Penzer, pages 71-72.