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Burton, Richard F. and Cameron, Verney Lovett.. TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. A Personal Narrative. Volume II [only].. Chatto & Windus, 1883.

Price: US$142.95 + shipping

Description: 1st Ed. vi + 381pp. Chromolitho. frontis., dec. e.ps., contemporary half morocco with cloth boards, some wear, gilt lettered spine. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: ‘. an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross central Africa (1873-75) to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second .’With the bookplate of Ernest Terah Hooley (1859–1947) English financial fraudster. He achieved wealth and fame by buying promising companies and reselling them to the public at inflated prices, but a prosecution exposed his deceitful practices. He was made bankrupt four times and served two prison terms. Hooley was the developer of the world's first industrial park, Trafford Park on the outskirts of Manchester. US$140

Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom

Burton, Richard and Verney Lovett Cameron. To the Gold Coast for Gold, 2 volumes. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Original red cloth, a gilt nugget of gold on both front covers andgilt titles on the spines. Rebacked skillfully , very clean with tight hinges. Inside, no stains or foxing. Publisher ads at the end of vol one dated December 1882. Protected in clear, mylar dustjackets. Burton was a promoter of gold exploration that did not pan out - first in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) and later in Arabia. West Africa had been the first field to supply gold to medieval Europe, as early as 1382 from Elmina to France. The Ashanti War of 1873-74 brough soldiers and colonial entrepreneurs into the valley of the Ancobra River. Burton and Cameron explored the so-called Kong Mountains and this work of natural history and gold was the reslut.

Seller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books, Craftsbury Common, VT, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard F. and Verney Lovett Cameron.. TO THE COAST FOR GOLD. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE. IN TWO VOLUMES.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, original red cloth, moderate wear, spines uniformly darkened with age and with the top edges worn and a little chipped, [xiv], 354pp., two folding maps, terminal publisher's ads (dated October 1882); colored frontispiece, [vi], 381pp. (final three signatures unopened). Occasional light foxing. PENZER, pp. 106-107. First Edition. A good+ set, and, thus, likely the least expensive set available of this rarity. An order originated from outside the USA will require significant additional postage.

Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard F & Cameron, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold, a personal narrative (two volumes complete). Chatto & Windus, 1883.

Price: US$1104.61 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: hardback, two volumes, octavo, lately rebound in red half calf and marbled boards, new endpapers. Top edges gilt, lettered gilt on burgundy morocco to spines, compartments blocked with a blind stamp design. A very good tightly bound set, the folding map frontis to volume one has two closed edge tears with loss, the text is clean and unmarked, coloured chromolithographic frontis to volume two, one further folding map at the rear of the first volume.

Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom

BURTON Richard & CAMERON Verney Lovett.. TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883.

Price: US$2404.16 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xii, 354; vi, 381; 2 folding maps, coloured plate, rebound about 100 years ago in blue half morocco, joints slightly rubbed, good and clean.

Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Burton, Richard F.. To the Gold Coast for gold. A personal narrative. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition of this 2 volume set with Half-titles, 2 folding maps in volume 1, publisher's advertisements at end of volume 1 and 1 colored plate. A wonderful copy bound in the publisher's pictorial red cloth. The bindings for both books are tight with slight wear to the edges. The original endpapers are present in each book with a previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. There is NO writing or marks in the books. A fabulous copy of both books in the original cloth bindings.

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

Burton, Richard F, & Verney Lovett Cameron. To the Gold Coast for gold. A personal narrative. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$4375.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, small 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xii, [2], 354, [2], 32 (Chatto & Windus ads); vi, 381, [3]; 2 folding maps, chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II, a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross central Africa (1873-75) to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second, although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right."

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

BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. , 1883.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month search for gold was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton's report that "there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked," a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. "The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in" (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, 455). Penzer, 106. A few expert repairs to folding map opposite title page of Volume I, wear to one fold of folding map at rear of Volume I. Text clean, full morocco-gilt bindings fine and beautiful.

Seller: Bauman Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. To The Gold Coast For Gold A Personal Narrative.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$5500.00 + shipping

Description: CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 189 x 126 mm). xii, [1, contents], [1, blank], [1]-354,[2,], [32, publisher's advertisements]; [2, blank], [i]-vi, [1]-381, [3] pp. With two colored folding maps in volume I and a colored frontispiece in volume II. Publisher's original red cloth, stamped in black and gilt on boards. Spines lettered in gilt and stamped in black. Black-coated endpapers. Spines slightly rubbed and sunned. Top edges a bit foxed. Minimal and invisible restoration to inner hinges. Bookplate on front paste-down of each volume, of previous owner John Ralph Willis, a prominent collector of Rare Africana. Each volume with previous owner's ink signature and date of 1888 on front free endpapers. On the same page in the same hand is written "Valley Forge Historical Society & Washington Memorial Library, Valley Forge." A very good and handsome set. "In 1881-2, Cameron joined Burton on a mission to West Africa. The two explorers examined the interior of the Gold Coast, searching for evidence of its gold-producing potential. Cameron also plotted the course of the Ankobrah River, and together they sent back to Kew 151 plants native to the Gold Coast. In 1883 their book To the Gold Coast for Gold was published." (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). Penzer, HBS 64998. $5,500.

Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Burton, Richard Francis. To the Gold Coast for gold. A personal narrative. Chatto & Windus, London, 1883.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Editions, First Printings of both books in this 2 (vol) set. A beautiful copy with the folding maps present. The books are in excellent shape with minor wear to the edges. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A wonderful set housed in a custom clamshell slipcase in collector's condition. We buy Richard Burton First Editions.

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