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Price: US$1153.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, x, 376pp. 1, 2, 340pp. with Folding Map, Mounted Albumen Portait Photographs of Isabel and Richard Burton and Coloured Plates, Two volumes, 8vo. contemporary half calf some wear, over marbled boards marbled endpapers and foredges. Excellent First Edition Set
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1932.39 + shipping
Description: London, Henry S. King & Co., 1875. 8vo. 2 volumes. Original slate cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, pp. [iii]-x, 376; [vi], 340, [4, advertisements]; each volume with Woodbury type portrait-frontispiece (without tissue guards), 2 colour-lithographic plates and 1 large folding map (repaired tear to fold), travel routes coloured by hand; cloth with a few expert repairs and and a little bumped, initial spotting to both volumes with contemporary stamps of St. Peter's College Glasgow to half-title and verso of one portrait, pencil shelfmarks; a good copy in the rarely seen publisher's binding. First edition. Lady Isabel Burton, devoted wife of Sir Richard Francis, was encouraged to write by him, having gone to meet him at Damascus in 1869. She describes her impressions and experiences of Syria, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, and in particular a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. 'Although she lived in Burton's literary shadow, referring to herself as "the mere bellows player to the organist", Isabel Burton was a good writer. Her Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land (2 vols., 1875) compares favourably with her husband's book about Syria, to which she also contributed . Isabel Burton was noted for her concern for animals, of which she usually kept many. Her menagerie at Damascus was so varied that only with difficulty did she keep its members from devouring each other' (ODNB). - This copy lacked the half-title to volume one when it was accessioned by St. Peter's College, as the library stamp and annotations were put onto the verso of the portrait. There is no evidence of this half-title having ever been bound in. Blackmer 246, 2nd edition only.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1988.80 + shipping
Description: 4to. 2 parts in one vol.: X, 376; (4), 340 pp. With 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 chromolithographed plates and one folding map of Syria. Contemporary full calf with giltstamped spine and spine label; giltstamped emblem of the Edinburgh Collegiate School to upper cover. Leading edges gilt. All edges marbled. Bound by Seton and Mackenzie of Edinburgh. First edition of Lady Isabel Burton's first book, detailing a journey made with her husband Sir Richard Francis Burton to Syria, Palestine and the Holy Land between 1869 and 1871. A remarkable work of travel literature from a female point of view, intending "to convey an idea of the life which an Englishwoman may make for herself in the East" (p. VII). It includes detailed descriptions of Damascus, the Hajj, Palmyra and Beirut, as well as dervish dances, a Muslim wedding, and a Turkish bath. With portraits of Isabel and Richard Francis Burton. - Extremities very slightly rubbed. A fine copy in an appealing binding. - Weber I, 724. Cf. Blackmer 246 (2nd ed.). Not in Atabey.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: photographic frontises (Isabel in Vol. I and Richard in Vol. II), 2 chromolithographic plates, folding map, x, 376, 340p plus [3]p. publisher's advertisements. Rebound in modern 1/2 leather (marbled green boards backed in darker green leather with matching corners). Map misfolded which has caused the outer edge to protrude slightly and be subject to soiling and wear. Mostly minor foxing. A few spots on page edges and here and there in text. INSCRIBED on the half-title in Vol. I in the author's hand ("To my old & valued friend Lady Marian Alford with the affectionate regard of the Author July 6 1875"). Isabel Burton refers to Lady Alford at page 379 in Vol. I of "The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton" as ". our best and never to-be-forgotten friend."
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. x, 376; [6], 340, [1], [3] ads; 2 mounted photographic frontispieces (one of the author, one of Richard Burton), 2 chromolithographs and a folding map; errata slip tipped in at p. 1 of volume II; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines; tops of both spines cracked at the top with slight loss, crack in cloth along rear joint of volume I, prelims a bit foxed; all else very good and sound. Blackmer 246; Blackmer Sale 1177: "Lady Isabel Burton, devoted wife of Sir Richard Francis, was encouraged to write by him, having gone to meet him at Damascus in 1869. She describes her impressions and experiences in Syria, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebon, and in particular a pilgriimage to Jerusalem."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.