May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
(BURTON, RICHARD, Sir.) Volumes 35, 42, and 44 of The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, containing 3 papers and a translation by Burton. Together, 3 volumes, with 12, 13, and 8 maps, respectively. 8vo, first 221x142 mm, original wrappers, covers chipped and detached, binding broken; others 211x134 mm, original cloth, shaken, spines darkened, Volume 42 covers blistered, hinges cracked; contents clean. Casada 156, 144, 142, 322. London, 1865; 1872; 1874

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Volume 35: On Lake Tanganyika, Volume 35, pages 1-14. Volume 42: Notes on the Exploration of the Tulul el Safa, pages 49-61 with map, and Notes of a Reconnaissance of the Anti-Libanus, pages 408-25 with map. Volume 44: Geographical Notes on the Province of Minas Geraes, by Henrique Gerber . . . Translated and Communicated by Captain R. F. Burton, pages 262-300.