Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
Stock Code 112621
London, Longmans, 1855-56.
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A 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 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 volumes, 8vo., xiv, (1, errata), 388; iv, 426; x, (1, list of plates), 448pp., half-title in volume 3, folding map, 5 coloured plates, 3 plans of which 2 folding, 9 plain plates, publisher's advertisements at end of vol.I, pastedowns with printed advertisements, original blue cloth with black decorative borders and spines, gilt lettering to spines, very slight wear to spine extremities, tiny split to rear inner hinge vol. i, a fine set with no repairs or restoration.
AbbeyTravel 368; Casada 53; Howgego IV, B95; Penzer pp.43-50.
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 volumes, 8vo., xiv, (1, errata), 388; iv, 426; x, (1, list of plates), 448pp., half-title in volume 3, folding map, 5 coloured plates, 3 plans of which 2 folding, 9 plain plates, publisher's advertisements at end of vol.I, pastedowns with printed advertisements, original blue cloth with black decorative borders and spines, gilt lettering to spines, very slight wear to spine extremities, tiny split to rear inner hinge vol. i, a fine set with no repairs or restoration.
AbbeyTravel 368; Casada 53; Howgego IV, B95; Penzer pp.43-50.
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