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Burton, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, Green and Longmans, 1855-56.
First edition, three octavo volumes, with half-title in third volume as called for by Penzer, illustrated with fourteen lithographic plates, all but one colored or tinted, and four maps or plans, of which three are folding; light marginal foxing, occasional small spots, pencil annotations; original three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, double ruled in gilt, spine gilt lettered, marbled endpapers, marbled edges; very lightly rubbed at joints; ex libris I. Griffith Deandern, with bookplate; 8 1/8 x 5 in.
Penzer pp. 46-50.
[Together with] Isabel Burton's (1831-1896) The Life of Captain Richard F. Burton. London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. First edition, in two octavo volumes, each illustrated with frontispieces and twelve photogravure plates, two of which are in color, one facsimile letter, five maps, and numerous text illustrations; small open tears to upper edge throughout, sporadic thumbing, large closed tear affecting text on page 201 of first volume; bound in black gilt-stamped publisher's cloth, with black coated endpapers, untrimmed; hinges cracked, losses at spine ends, some fraying, block cracked in multiple places; ex libris Annie Newman, inscribed to her from J.M. Loftus-Otway in 1893; 9 7/8 x 5 ½ in.
From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
