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Burton, Richard Francis. Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An exploration. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1863.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Editions, First Printings of this 2 volume set lacking Half-titles, folding map, and frontis. Both bounds have been re-bound with raised bands and marbled papers. The bindings for both books are tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with minor wear to the edges. There is NO marks or bookplates in the books. A lovely copy

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard Francis. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An exploration. Tinsley Brothers, 1863.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Hinges cracked. Generally clean. Torn with loss to spine ends. Tear to end pages. V.1 is lacking frontispiece, V.2 is lacking map. v.1 (333 p.), v.2 (306 p.); illustrations ; 20 cm. "While serving as British Consul to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, Burton joined a mission from Lagos to Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba Yoruba tribe. This work details the journey, with particular attention to the local customs, people, flora and fauna." Hosken p 34; Penzer p 70.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

BURTON, Richard Francis.. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. An exploration. London, Tinsley Brothers, 1863., 1863.

Price: US$519.82 + shipping

Description: 2 vols, 8vo, pp. xvi, 333, [3 (ads)], frontispiece with mounted photographic portrait of author (after a painting) with facsimile signature below, 1 plate; v, 306, [2 (ads)], frontispiece, 2 plates, 1 folding map; staining to fore-edge of vol. 1 frontispiece, and chips to fore-edges of first quire, occasional light marks; overall good in original pebbled green cloth, spines lettered in gilt; vol. 1 rebacked with spine laid down, some wear to extremities, endpapers renewed; 'Church Missionary Society Library' stamps to titles with cancelled stamps, library shelfmarks in white ink to spines.First edition, in two volumes, recounting Burton's travels to the city of Abeokuta (south-west Nigeria), as well as his subsequent voyage to Mount Cameroon volcano. Burton left Lagos for Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba Yoruba tribe, in October 1861, arriving on the first of November. Although he spent only one week in Abeokuta, the first volume of this work is dedicated to his stay there, and describes Burton's presentation at the court as well as the religious, social, and cultural customs of the Egba people. Of particular interest to Burton is the future of British relations with the Yoruba lands, given Britain's acquisition of Lagos, some 60 miles south of Abeokuta, in the 1861 Lagos Treaty of Cession. 'We have aroused', writes Burton in his preface, 'the ever wakeful suspicions of the barbarian, and he has not been slow in entering upon energetic measures'. As a result, Burton's account is filled with his own suggestions ('simple measures') which, he believes, 'will secure our influence upon the sea-board of Yoruba' (pp. vii-viii). The second volume is primarily dedicated to Burton's expedition to the 'Camaroons Mountains', a series of volcanoes in the southwest of what is now Cameroon, in the winter of 1861-2. A number of appendixes provide additional historical, ethnographic, biological, and meteorological information relating to both the area itself and to the history of European exploration in the region. A detailed folding map indicates the route Burton took on his way to the summit of Mount Cameroon. Hosken, p. 34; Penzer, pp. 70-71.

Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom

BURTON, Richard.. Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An Exploration.. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1863.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Description: 2 vols. With a circular original photographic frontispiece portrait; four other plates and one folding map. 8vo, later 3/4 morocco. First edition. Old ink ownership inscription at head of title in each volume; some light foxing to preliminary pages; map neatly repaired with fine tissue; otherwise a nice copy with some slight sunning to the spines and a 1/2" split to one of the the joints of Vol. 2.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Richard F Burton. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. An Exploration (First Edition, Volume II Only). Tinsley Brothers, London, 1863.

Price: US$1375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST EDITION, first printing. Volume II only. Original full green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. The cloth has general edge wear which has been touched up. The gutter front board has been reinforced with yellow paper to match yellow endsheets. Previous owner's siganture and date of June 5, 1866 on front free endpage. Light foxing to frontispiece. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.

[BURTON, Richard Francis].. Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S.. London Tinsley Brothers, 1863.

Price: US$3327.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, 2 volumes 8vo, x, 303; vi, 295 pp., folding map as frontispiece to volume I, plate of the JuJu House as frontispiece to volume II, original purple-brown pebble-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine, triple blind panel to the boards, yellow surface-paper endpapers, neat repairs to spine extremities, a very good set. travel2023 'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the consulship at Fernando Po, a small, unhealthy island in the Bight of Biafra on the west African coast. When he accepted the position on 27 March 1861 he requested to retain his commission in the Bombay army, but he was struck from the list, thereby losing not only his half pay but also any prospect of a pension or sale of his commission, an action about which he always complained bitterly. Burton did not permit Isabel to accompany him to Fernando Po, which he described as "the very abomination of desolation". He slipped away from the post at every opportunity for excursions on the African mainland or to meet Isabel in the Canaries or England. Although he loathed Fernando Po, he worked continuously at his writing with Wanderings in West Africa and Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains both appearing in 1863' (ODNB). Cardinall 498; Casada 70; Howgego IV B97; Penzer, pp. 71-2.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Burton, Richard F.. Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An exploration. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1863.

Price: US$5625.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 333, [2] ads; v, [1], 306, [2] ads; photographic portrait of the author (from a painting), 4 plates and a map; near fine in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Penzer, p. 70: "Portraits in his works are rare." Casada 25: "The work had two basic purposes; suggested measures to 'secure our [Britain's] influence upon the seaboard of Yoruba' and descriptions of Burton's explorations in the mountains."

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard Francis. Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains. An exploration. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1863.

Price: US$6000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition of this 2 volume set with Half-titles, folding map, and engraved plate present. A magnificent copy bound in the publisher's green pebble-grained cloth. The bindings for both books are tight with slight wear to the edges. The original endpapers are present in each book and the pages are clean. There is NO marks or bookplates in the books. A fabulous copy of both books in the original cloth bindings housed in a custom slipcase for preservation. We buy Richard Burton First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.