Richard Burton
Frequently described within his own lifetime as the most interesting figure of the nineteenth century, Burton was one of the greatest explorers to come out of England. A brilliant, charismatic man, Burton was both scholar and daring adventurer. Fluent in some twenty-nine languages, and with his Mediterranean looks, he was able to pass himself off as a local in many countries in the Middle and Far East thereby gaining an insight into different cultures, something usually denied to travellers.
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Priapeia;
[EROTICA]. [BURTON, Richard F. (translation) & SMITHERS, Leonard C. (editor)].Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00One of 250 copies - printed for private circulation. A near-fine copy of a Burton rarity. One of 250 numbered copies, published for members of the ...
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Unexplored Syria.
BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.Original price £15,000.00 - Original price £15,000.00Original price £0.00£15,000.00£15,000.00 - £15,000.00Current price £15,000.00A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...
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Falconry in the Valley of the Indus.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00One of only 500 copies. Rare: only 500 copies were printed. 'Burton's Falconry is today considered a classic, although it created little stir at th...
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The Land of Midian (Revisited).
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Inscribed copy. Burton's second expedition to Midian, the area of north-west Arabia on the opposite bank of the Red Sea from the Sinai Peninsular, ...
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A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments,
BURTON, Richard Francis (translator).Original price £22,500.00 - Original price £22,500.00Original price £0.00£22,500.00£22,500.00 - £22,500.00Current price £22,500.00One of 50 copies. One of 50 edition de luxe sets finely bound in red morocco, housed in the original custom made cabinet, the glazed doors with pie...
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A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...
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Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po.
[BURTON, Richard Francis].Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...
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First footsteps in East Africa.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £2,350.00 - Original price £2,350.00Original price £0.00£2,350.00£2,350.00 - £2,350.00Current price £2,350.00The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...
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