Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo [22 cm] Rebacked in sturdy green cloth with the original backstrip laid over and 3/4 of the original boards showing. Hinges reinforced. Lacking pp. 705-7 of the index. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. With the map at the front, and the Plan of Great Salt Lake City. All illustrations present. Flake 1029. Wright Howes B-1028. Second British edition. After traveling through the Holy Land, Burton turned his eyes to the Great Basin. The book tells of the noted adventurer's travels through Indian country to visit Salt Lake City and study the polygamous practices of the Mormons there.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$133.66 + shipping
Description: London: Longman, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1862. Thick 8vo. Later half calf with patterned paper boards. (xii, 708pp.). With frontisp., maps, plates, and plans. Complete.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$167.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. modern red leatherette gilt (prev. owner's blind stamp to title page, upper forecorner of p.207/208 torn with loss, outer leaves a little browned, occasional grubby mark, else very clean & bright); pp. xii, 707 (last colophon), with tissue-guarded frontispiece, 8 plates, 8 text figures & tables, plus 4 maps (on 2 foldouts). Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$506.69 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book condition: Good in green boards with leather spine and corners; raised bands and gilt titles to spine; binding rubbed; spine slightly faded; dust/smudges to closed page edges; very light foxing to prelims and some margins; two inch oval stamp to title page. A bright copy.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Description: [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original cloth pasted over new spine. Gilt titles to spine and yellow coated endpapers. Slight reading lean. Small bookseller's label of W. B. Clarke and Carruth, Boston MA, to front free endpaper. Moderate outer wear, with some fraying to original spine cloth edges. Good overall. First published in 1861, the great explorer relates his journey across the Midwest from the Missouri River to Salt Lake City and Sacramento.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: x [2] 707 [1] pp. Folding map, folding plan of Salt Lake City, and 7 plates. 8vo, contemporary half calf and marbled sides. Second edition. Flake 1028. Two bookplates on pastedown; spine quite chipped at head and foot; covers neatly reattached using the Japanese tissue method.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy in an Alan Grace dark calf and marbled boards binding vellum tips and red morocco gilt title label on spine, illustrated. with a frontis of the City of the Saints, Salt Lake City and an exploration of the Mormons as well as a journey across North America ca. 1860 just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. A great explorer and author explores America. a classic, listed in all major sources on Americana. 21 engraveds plates includes a fold out map of his trek, and a map of the Great Salt Lake and then one of the WorldRichard Francis Burton's account of his travels in the American west, including Salt Lake City. After stopping in New York and Washington, Burton spent three mysterious months in the South; Edward Rice, in his recent biography of Burton, hints that he may have been on a secret mission to southern leaders on the eve of the Civil War. He reappeared in St. Joseph (at which point his narrative begins), where he caught a stagecoach for Salt Lake City. After spending some time in the Mormon capital, Burton proceeded on to Carson City, Sacramento, and finally San Francisco. Though generally overlooked, this is one of Burton's best works. "The book," Rice says, "is a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one traveled westward. It is mid-century America in five hundred pages and appendixes and rarely dull" (Rice, p. 334-5)
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.