Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, second edition with the words "second edition" printed on the title page. A spectacular copy. The book is bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL red cloth and is in excellent condition. The book appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book's 3/4 bound leather has scuffing at corners and edges; book also has a cracking front hinge, minor pencil writing on front end paper, and very light toning to pages; otherwise a sharp copy; clean, tight and unmarked. Protected with a clear plastic dust jacket.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Burton traveled to the empty quarter of the Arabian peninsula in search of native towns where King Solomon supposedly found gold (Penzer, p. 95-6). Illustrated with text drawings and folding map. Original red cloth with black decorations and gilt spine title. Original black endpapers, inner hinges starting. Half-title present. 31-page book catalog at rear. A very good copy free of foxing.
Seller: Classic Arms Books, St. Cloud, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published 1878 with NO indication of later printing on the title page. The book is in very good condition with some discoloration to the spine and light wear to the boards. The original brown endpapers are present with some foxing to pages. A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the sequel to 'Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.' Octavo, original publisher's decorated cloth stamped in black and gilt, rebacked, beveled edges, black endpapers, illustrations in text, folding map of North-Western Arabia, advertisements at rear. In very good condition. This sober tale of Burton's journey through the ruined Midianite cities acts as a sequel and continuation of his 'Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah.' Returning to Egypt in 1877 upon the country's distress for gold, Sir Burton set upon a fortnight's Expedition in North-Western Arabia to locate gold and other valuable materials in an effort to revive the Midian gold mines.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard. The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities. C.Kegan Paul, 1878.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SCARCE. Subtitle is "A fortnight's Tour in North-Western Arabia. Burton was hopeful he could find gold in NW Arabia for the Khedive of Egypt. This short trip led to a longer exploration the next year, and the two volume work, The Land of Midian. Unfortunately, no gold was found, but this remains a sequel to his first Arabia venture, Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. Pages xvi, 398. A nice copy with bright red "silky" boards and bright gilt title on the front (Penzer says gilt title only on the first edition). The spine is sun faded, but has gilt as well as black lines (again said to exist only on the first). This is a stated second edition, but with a first edition binding. Clean and tight inside, but foxing on the first few pages, and all are a bit browned. A small tag on the inside cover reads W.A. Eddy, TAPLINE, Beirut, Lebanon. As Col. Eddy, he was a famous Arabist who arranged and translated for the meeting between President Roosevelt and King Saud of Saudi Arabia on an American warship in the Red Sea in 1945. Subsequently Col. Eddy was an influential player in establishing American dominance in the Arabian oil business, first with Tapline, then Aramco. Surprisingly , he did not read this work, nor did anyone else. The tops of the page groupings are not cut. They will be for the buyer on request. Protected in clear, mylar dustjacket. Rare in the original cloth binding in this condition.
Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rebound red half leather binding, red cloth boards, ribbed spine with gilt titles, marbled end papers. Original cloth cover and spine laid in (glued) to rear end papers. Folding map clean and intact, no tears. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Very light foxing confined to title and first few pages. Pictures happily sent on request.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$545.39 + shipping
Description: 8vo. xvi, 395 [3] pp. 32p Publishers Catalogue. folding map of North- Western Arabia. text illustrations. later half calf. Richard Burton's Expedition East of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea and discovered Gold in the region. A Good Copy.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK BOUND IN A 20th CENTURY HALF LEATHER BINDING, MARBLED BOARDS & ENDPAPERS, FOLDING MAP TO REAR, SEVERAL ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 16 + 395 + APPENDIX PAGES II-III & IV. LACKING THE ADVERT LEAF & PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE TO REAR, POSSIBLY LACKING THE HALF TITLE, LIBRARY STAMP TO TITLE PAGE & MARGINS OF TWO FURTHER TEXT PAGES, TITLE PAGE HAS BEEN NEATLY LAID DOWN ON LINEN WITH NUMBER WRITTEN TO REVERSE, SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING, MARKS, FINGER MARKS OR CREASES TO PAGES, SEVERAL CREASES & TEARS TO FOLDING MAP [SEE IMAGE] VERY OCCASIONAL SMALL REFERENCE NOTE TO MARGIN IN ENGLISH OR ARABIC. OVERALL A FEW ISSUES INTERNALLY BUT NOTHING SERIOUS & STILL A VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE COPY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Description: Red cloth with gilt fr. and sp. lettering and black decoration to both. Clean but rubbing to sp. ends and outer corners, with cloth breaking to latter. xvi + 395 + (3, Appendices 2-4), unfolding map facing p. 392, with blue sea and red route line, + 32 (pub. list), 6 ills. to Chap. 8; early lib. label of the 'Montrose Library' with various lib. numbers on it to centre fr. pastedown. thin cloth splitting to end-gutters, a few tanning spots to half-title and t.p. with faint edge-tanning throughout (possibly common to most copies). 14.5 cm x 23 cm
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Price: US$713.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2nd Edition. xvi,395,[5]pp., 30 pp. ads, [2]pp. Octavo. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams in text and large folding map. Original decorative red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Bevelled edges and black coated endpapers. Slight darkening to spine and edges of covers else a tight and clean copy of a scarce book. very good In pursuit of fortune in his waning years Burton traveled in November 1877 into the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, following the natives' tales of "ruined towns once prosperous with dense populations, of quarries where King Solomon found gold for the walls of the Temple, his drinking vessels, and his lion throne, of turquoise mines."(Rice, p. 433)
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL red cloth. The book is in great shape with light wear to the spine and edges. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book with some foxing to pages. A wonderful copy housed in a custom red slipcase.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
BURTON, RICHARD. The Gold-Mines of Midian. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London, 1878.
Price: US$751.57 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Rebound in burgundy calf with marbled paper to boards and edges of pages. Some marbling rubbed from corners of pages; faint tape stain to tear in first several pages (professionaly closed); two small blue and purple superimposed ex-library rubber stamps to page of quotations on verso of title page, and one purple rubber stamp to dedication page; small chip to title page fore-edge; very tip of the corner of first several pages lost.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$1062.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. xvi, 395, [3], [1] leaf of ads, plus 32-p. Kegan Paul catalogue dated 1.81; folding map plus several illustrations in the text; spine slightly dull and with a few cracks at the extremities with small loss of cloth at the very bottom; all else very good in original red cloth stamped in gilt and black on the upper cover and spine. Penzer, p. 95-6 noting a different binding for the second edition than this. This edition is published the same year as the first and textually is nearly identical. Casada 38: "Burton considered it a sequel and continuation of Pilgrimage to Mecca."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Burton Richard Francis. The Gold Mines of Midian. C. Kegan Paul and Co, 1878.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Burton's first Expedition to Midian in search of Gold, first edition in Quarter leather binding.
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: folding map, xvi, 395, [5]p. plus [32]p. publisher's advertisements dated 1,78. Original red cloth with beveled edges which has been rebacked with most of original backstrip mounted. Cloth worn through at corners. Minor foxing. Bookplate (Buddle Atkinson).
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folding map, illustrations in text. xvi, 395, [3, appendices], [1, blank], [1, ad]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In 1877, Burton sought to raise money from the Khedive of Egypt for a project to revive the gold mines at Midian near the Red Sea cost. "Burton took a 'preliminary canter' into Midian to size up the ground and assess the obstacles to be ovrcome on a ful-scale expedition" (Rice, p. 433). Burton covered a lot of ground, collected some samples, and wrote up this book when he returned to Trieste. The longer expedition to Midian, during the autumn and winter of 1878 was a bust, and forms the subject of The Land of Midian (revisited). Penzer pp. 95, 96 Original red cloth gilt. Spine toned (small snag at head, foot rubbed, inner hinges tender). Very good Folding map, illustrations in text. xvi, 395, [3, appendices], [1, blank], [1, ad]pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.