Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 326

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
Burton, Richard F. (1821-1890)
Falconry in the Valley of the Indus.

London: John Van Voorst, 1852.



First edition, one of only 500 copies printed, octavo; with 8 pages of publisher's ads at rear; illustrated with tinted frontispiece and 3 plates; bound in publisher's dark purple cloth, spine gilt-lettered (light foxing to plate versos; sporadic areas of minor foxing and occasional stains; cloth discolored dark brown as called for by Penzer, spine cocked, hinges starting); 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 in.

Penzer, p. 41.