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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the fold out map present. The book is bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with light wear to the spine. The pages have some light soiling to endpaper with two early bookstore bookplates offering the book for sale. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is the first US Edition, published one year after the first UK edition. Orignal binding, elaborate blind-embossed dark brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Tissue protected frontispiece rendering of Great Salt Lake City as viewed from the north. Several illustrations, including some full page plates and foldout map. Good to good plus. Boards bear some edgewear and very minor rubbing. Pages and hinges are tight with sporadic minor staining and water damage, otherwise bright clean text and plates.Thick 8vo. pp. xii, 574 incl appendix and index, plus adverts. Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890) was an English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat. He was famed for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages. Following his celebrated journeys to Mecca and Medina, Burton turned his attention to the American frontier, traversing Indian county en route to Salt Lake City where he embarked on characteristic detailed ethnographic studies --guardely favorable-- of the Mormons and met Brigham Young.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Pp. xvi, [1]-574, [2, ads]. Folding sheet containing 3 engraved maps, fold-out street plan of Salt Lake City, 8 wood-engraved plates (including frontis), 9 wood-engraved text illustrations. Extensive bibliography, notes and appendices. Newer light brown cloth, printed paper spine label. Owner's circular embossed stamp at base of title page, but a very fine and clean copy with no foxing. First American edition of this classic narrative of the author's trek across the United States to Salt Lake City and thence to California, in the late summer and early fall of 1860. Burton gives an account of his visit to Salt Lake City and describes the overland journey, the Mormons, polygamy, etc. His was one of the best books on the Mormons published during the 19th century, written in a detached, journalistic manner. Burton departed from Saint Joseph on August 7, 1860, and arrived at Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. [Cowan: p.87; Flake: 1029; Graff: 512; Howes I: B-1033; Howes II: B-1028; Sabin: 9497; Wagner-Camp: 370:2; Wheat, Transmississippi: V, p.23].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$867.02 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. brown cloth, (xii), (4), (1)-574, (2)pp.ads. With engraved plates (8 and a frontis), folding sheet with three maps, and several engravings in the text. Library stamp on the plates (no other library markings), bookplate, some scattered foxing, wear to the head and foot of spine, small piece of cloth 1/2" in diameter missing from upper board but this is still a better than very good but not near fine copy. Howes B1033, cf. Sabin 9497, Wagner-Camp 370:2. An account of Burton's journey across the United States to Salt Lake City and thence to California, in the late summer and early fall of 1860. Burton details his visit to Salt Lake City and describes the overland journey, the Mormons, polygamy, etc. "Sir Richard departed from Saint Joseph on August 7, 1860, and arrived at Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendix of the book contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology; and the footnotes (pp. 250-63) include an extensive Mormon bibliography" (Wagner-Camp). The five appendices include a detailed itinerary of his route, transcriptions of various Mormon documents, and a chronological abstract of Mormon history.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing of this First American Edition. The book is bound in the publishers' brown cloth and has the folding sheet containing 3 engraved maps, the fold-out street plan of Salt Lake City, 8 wood-engraved plates (including frontis), and 9 wood-engraved text illustrations present in the book. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages have some discoloration. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy housed in a custom brown slipcase with an acetate cover for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.