London, Tylston and Edwards, 1893
One of the most important books on Arabia. Burton entered Mecca freely as a true Mohammedan pilgrim (travelling as an Afghan Pathan) and was 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.
Memorial edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 15 cm); edited by Isabel Burton, her portrait as frontispiece to Vol. I; 15 tinted lithograph plates, 5 of which coloured, 27 further in-text engravings, 3 folding plans and 1 folding coloured map, armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet ownership stamps to half-titles, a touch of spotting to first and last few leaves of vols otherwise clean and tight internally; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, a little rubbing, minor chips to spines expertly repaired, a very good set; xxviii, [4], 436; xii, [4], 479 pp.
Memorial edition; 2 volumes, 8vo (22 x 15 cm); edited by Isabel Burton, her portrait as frontispiece to Vol. I; 15 tinted lithograph plates, 5 of which coloured, 27 further in-text engravings, 3 folding plans and 1 folding coloured map, armorial bookplates to pastedowns, discreet ownership stamps to half-titles, a touch of spotting to first and last few leaves of vols otherwise clean and tight internally; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, a little rubbing, minor chips to spines expertly repaired, a very good set; xxviii, [4], 436; xii, [4], 479 pp.
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