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Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Volume 2 only. Tan cloth cover is . Frayed at corners and spine caps, worn, and soiled with chip in spine strip which has been reglued. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Foxing to front matter. Frontispiece is foxed but protected by tissue. Pages are lighty toned but clean and in very good condition. A good candidate for rebinding.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. FIRST EDITION. 3/4 Leather Binding. 360 pages + folding plates, 400 pages. 27 plates (some folding) and large folding map. Very Good.Tight bindings; clean pages and covers; bookplate of famous collector James Fraser Gluck on front endpaper of each volume; a couple of tape repairs at folds of map; some wear and rubbing. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Volume I: viii, [2], 360 pp., 1 folding coloured map of Northern Syria, Lacking frontispiece / Volume II: vi, [1], 400 pp., half-titles, 25 lithographed plates of which 11 are folding, numerous illustrations and engravings in text, original mustard cloth, upper covers ruled in black but not lettered, spine ends rubbed, occasional light spotting and soiling mainly to end leaves, small ink library stamp on title and end pages, small hole puncture on front endpaper of volume 2, few pencil markings and pencil note on end fly leaves, otherwise an unopened copy in overall good condition. Burton was consul at Damascus from October 1865 to August 1871. During that period Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fund, but for some reason he left the Fund, and he and Burton continued the exploration of Syria and Lebanon on their own. This work is not a continuous narrative of their travels but consists of articles by Burton, Drake, Mrs Burton and others. The plates include shells, plants, and Burton’s collection of anthropological materials from the Holy Land (skulls etc.). The text contains catalogues of these materials. The work also includes a chapter on Arabic proverbs. Bibliographic references: Blackmer 247; Casada 68; Penzer 85-88.
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: 360 & 400 pages. 23 x 14 cm. Twenty-seven lithographed plates including the frontispieces, eleven are folding, plus large fold-out color map, and twenty-eight text illustrations. Index. Burton noted this work as a "pot-pourri" on "Unexplored Syria," containing articles by Burton Drake, Mrs. Burton and others -- rather than a continuous and smooth narrative -- compiled during sundry desert explorations Burton was Consul in Damascus from 1865-197, and Drake came to Syria under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Society. PENZER 85-88. Scarce set in original cloth, interior contents clean, a few map folds reinforced with archival tape, light cover soiling, a few corners bumped, two small cloth puckers (approx. one by one inches) cover of Vol.I and back cover Vol.II. Orig. cloth, front cover border fillets in black, frame interior rectangular designs also in black with back covers a design mirror, but in blind. Very good. 2 vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Lithographic frontispiece to each vol., folding map, 25 other lithographic plates (11 of which are) folding. 2 vols. 8vo. Account of the lands and tribes of Syria, written by Burton and Drake while Burton was British consul in Damascus. Drake had walked from the Sinai through desert Palestine with Edward Palmer on the first surveying expedition of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Burton was dismissed from his post because of opposition to him from the Ottoman governor of Syria and high level intrigue in the British consular service. Penzer pp. 85-88; Blackmer 247; Casada 68 Contemporary half brown morocco and cloth sides, t.e.g. Front joint of vol. I tender, headcap and joints of vol. II rubbed; short tape repair to verso of one fold of map, still a very good set Lithographic frontispiece to each vol., folding map, 25 other lithographic plates (11 of which are) folding. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1251.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition work on the exploration of Syria, by the famous explorers, Richard F. Burton and Charles Tyrwhitt Drake. The first edition. Complete in two volumes. In the publisher's original, full, cloth binding. Volume one has a frontispiece, eight vignette illustrations, ten folding plates and one large folding map. Collated complete. Volume two has a frontispiece, eleven full page plates, twelve vignette illustrations and one folding map. Collated complete. An interesting account of the culture, land and history of Syria, written from the personal travel experience of Richard F. Burton and Charles F. Tyrwhitt-Drake. Richard Francis Burton was a classic British explorer, writer and orientalist scholar. He is best known for documenting his journey to Mecca, undertaken in disguise, at a time when non-Muslims were strictly forbidden. He was a captain in the East India Company, and a member of the Royal Geographical Society, through which he became the first European to have seen Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Charles F. Tyrwhitt-Drake was a naturalist, archeologist and linguist. He is best known for his work with the Palestine Exploration Fund, where he investigated the Hama inscriptions. Burton described Tyrwhitt-Drake as his, 'inseparable companion' during their travels. The half title pages are present. Each volume has a bookplate for, 'Richmond College Surrey', to the front paste-down. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed. Shelf wear to the edges. Cracks to the lower joints of both volumes. Spines are frayed and darkened. Small ink inscription to the lower spine of both volumes. Fraying and loss to the upper spine of volume one. Marks to the boards. Cockling to the front board of volume one. Hinges strained but still firm. Rear hinge of volume one is weak. Chipping and light marks to the front free endpapers. Bookplate and marks to the front paste-down of both volumes. Internally, binding strained. The frontispiece in volume one is loosening, but still attached. Pages generally bright and clean with some light age-toning to the edges and some scattered spots, particularly towards the front and rear of the books. Numerous pages are uncut in volume two. Small closed tear of about half an inch to page 112 of volume two. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Spine ends are frayed with chipping. Former owner's name Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (August 15, 1817 - June 16, 1887) , American divine, on ffep in ink from 1879 on ffeps of both volumes. Institution bookplate on inner covers of both volumes. Slight cracking starting along back inner hinge of volume 1. Slight wear to corners. ; 2 Volume Set COMPLETE
Seller: Ancient World Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$3857.23 + shipping
Description: 8vo (154 x 220 mm). 2 vols. XVI, (4), 360 pp. 6, (2), 400 pp. With 2 frontispieces, 25 plates (11 of which folding), and 2 folding maps, as well as several illustrations in the text. 20th century red library cloth. First edition. Richard Burton, then consul at Damascus, explored the volcanic regions east of that city and the highlands of Syria. The work contains two items of great archaeological interest: the first was the assertion (much derided) that the Hamath stones were of Hittite origin, a matter not finally decided in Burton's favour until eventual decipherment in the 1920s. The second concerned a Moabite inscription recently discovered near the Dead Sea, which suggested that the true result of the conflict with Israel, as narrated in the Book of Kings, was a Moabite victory. The enthusiasm with which Burton challenged the biblical version of events may well have hastened his dismissal from Damascus. - Vol. 1 includes ten fold-out plates reproducing inscriptions found on the Hanath Stones; the remaining plates include reproductions of shells, plants, and Burton's collection of anthropological materials from the Holy Land. Complete copies were scarce in Penzer's day and now rare. - The Burtons rode to Palmyra, Baalbek and the Cedars of Lebanon with Drake and E. H. Palmer on their first encounter, before Drake and Burton set out on their archaeological expedition the following year. Burton did not see Palmer again until 1880 in the Midian but when Burton was recalled from Damascus (a "wicked and unforgivable" Government blunder, according to Penzer), it was Palmer who wrote in protest to the Civil Service Gazette. And when Palmer disappeared in the Sinai desert in 1882, it was Burton who set off in pursuit at the behest of the Foreign Office. Lovell writes that the "Palmer affair marks an end to Burton's physical adventures" and an upsurge in his literary output. - Maps and one plate with tears and old tape repairs verso. Removed from the Wolverhampton Public Library with their usual labels and blind-stamps throughout; slight bumping to corners and extremities. - Blackmer 247. Penzer 85-88. Casada 68. OCLC 2096419.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Price: US$4675.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First edition. In a rare unrecorded state of the cloth binding. With the large folding map, 27 plates (11 folding), and 28 illustrations in the text. 8vo, mustard cloth with ruled and decorated in black and blind on spine and covers, spines lettered in black. [xx], 360; [viii], 400. A unusually nice and bright set, hinges tight and strong with much less than the usual wear to the original cloth bindings. Half title in Volume I cut. Penzer notes three states of the binding, but none match the binding on this copy, which has a ruled border and fancy border on the upper covers in black, on the lower covers in blind, and no lettering on the covers. A miscellany of information about unknown regions of Syria compiled during several months wanderings in the deserts. Burton and his wife were station at Damascus; Charles Tyrwhitt-Drake and Edward Henry Palmer, who were working under the auspices of the Palestinian Exploration Fund, did a bit of exploring on their own and happened to meet up with Burton in Damascus. Edward Rice, in his biography of Burton, strongly suspects that the meeting was not just happenstance, and that the pair, if not the three, were following some secret anti-Turkish mission. Palmer and Drake departed Damascus in 1870, though Drake remained in the middle east, travelling, exploring, and mapping. Shortly thereafter he returned to Bludán to collaborate with Burton on this book. Complete copies are scarce, and needless to say copies in original cloth are especially scarce as well.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings of both books in the two volume set. A beautiful copy bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL cloth. The books are in great shape with minor wear to the spine and edges. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leaning. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A lovely copy bound in the scarce publisher's cloth.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard. Unexplored Syria. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1872.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulul el Safa, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus and the Ala. First ed. Penzer pp 85-88. Two volumes: 360 pp, folding map, plates, text ill. 400 pp, plates & text ill. In most of the copies the binder inserted the plates incorrectly so the list of illustrations is faulty and the plates are bound in different order in different copies. Burton, COnsul at Damascus (1865-1871) traveled to Syria to explore it and Lebanon. Nicely bound in half leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, raised spine bands, gilt rules on bands. A good looking set showing little wear. Scarce. VG+.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.