fine Asprey binding
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London, Longmans, 1855-1856.
Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a true Mohammedan pilgrim (travelling in disguise as an Afghan Pathan) and the first European to travel between the Holy Cities by the eastern route. Burton had originally intended to cross the peninsula but was frustrated by fierce fighting among the interior tribes. He spent a month at Medina before going on to Mecca where he performed all the rituals of the Hajj.
First edition; 3 vols, 8vo (23 x 15 cm); half-title in vol. III, 5 coloured chromolithograph plates, 8 tinted lithograph plates, 1 wood engraved plate, 1 folding map, 3 plans (of which 2 folding), publisher's ads at end of vol. I; particularly fine full black morocco by Asprey, the boards triple gilt panelled with foliate detail, one-line gilt panels to spines enclosing foliate devices, gilt panelled dentelles with moiré silk doublures and end leaves, contained within a leather-entry slip-case, an extremely fine set; xiv, [1], 388, 24; iv, 426; x, [1], 448pp.
Abbey (Travel), 368; Casada 53; Howgego IV, B95; Penzer pp.43-50.
Stock code 120308
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:
c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
$20,547.00
