May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 296

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,000
BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, Sir. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. 14 plates, comprising 5 chromolithographs, 8 tinted lithographs, and one uncolored wood-engraving; 4 maps and plans, 3 of them folding. Errata leaf in Volume 1 and half-title in Volume 3, as issued. 3 volumes. 8vo, original blue cloth with border stamped in black on covers, rebacked retaining darkened original gilt-lettered backstrips and original brown endpapers with publisher's ads on pastedowns; contents clean, with only scattered minor marginal paper chips or clean tears. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855-56

Additional Details

first edition of Burton's best-known work, "not only a great adventure narrative but also a classic commentary on Muslim life and manners, especially on the annual pilgrimage" (EB). Abbey Travel 368; Casada 53; Penzer, pages 49-50.