Burton, Richard Francis

1. The Book of the Sword. London, 1884, FIRST EDITION, half-title, illustrations, modern red half calf
2. First Footsteps in East Africa. London, 1856, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 2 engraved maps, 4 chromolithographed plates, original red cloth gilt, some spotting or browning to plates and adjacent leaves, binding worn, rebacked
3. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. London, 1893, 2 volumes, Memorial Edition, frontispieces, contemporary green half morocco, spines faded to brown
Burton, Isabel. The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land. London, 1875, FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, half-titles, 2 photographic portraits, 2 chromolithographed plates, folding map, modern half calf, short tear in margin of one plate
and 5 others by or about Burton (11)

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