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Price: US$2374.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACKS BOUND IN LATER & FAIRLY AMATEURISH HALF LEATHER BINDINGS, BOTH VOLUMES COMPLETE WITH FOLD OUT MAP + A TOTAL OF 15 PLATES AS FOLLOWS - 4 ILLUSTRATIONS & 4 PLANS TO VOLUME 1 & 7 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME 2. EACH BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 X 6 INCHES. AS MENTIONED ABOVE THE BINDINGS ARE A LITTLE ON THE AMATEUR SIDE BUT STRONG & FIRM, SOME LIGHT KNOCKS & BUMPS TO COVERS, TWO PRIVATE BOOKPLATES TO FRONT ENDPAPERS, NAME OF WILLIAM SMITH TO BOTH TITLE PAGES BUT WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE TIPEX OVER NAME TO TITLE PAGE 1 + ONE CONTENTS PAGES & DEDICATION PAGE, SOME OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING WHICH IS MOSTLY TO PLATES WITH FOXING A LITTLE HEAVIER TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH MAJORITY OF TEXT PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
BURTON, Sir Richard F.. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast.. , 1872.
Price: US$2456.17 + shipping
Description: London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Two volumes, 8vo. Late 20th-century black buckram, spines lettered in gilt, original gilt illustrations of the publisher's binding pasted inside front covers, as well and gilt-stamped backstrips inside lower covers; pp. xii [2, sectional title], 503; vi + [2 sectional title], 519; 11 wood-engraved plates, one folding map, 4 single-page maps; a few repairs to folds of map, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. In the opinion of Burton's bibliographer James A. Casada, Zanzibar is "among the most important of [Burton's] African-related studies". The book is based upon notes taken during a fortnight's stay on the island prior to Burton and Speke's expedition to discover the source of the Nile. These notes, posted to the RGS, were not delivered for 8 years. By the time they again reached Burton's hand the Nile expedition had returned, Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria had been discovered and Speke was dead. The delayed publication of Zanzibar therefore gave Burton an opportunity to look back at subsequent events. The final chapters describe the "East African Expedition of 1857-1859" and the concluding chapter, 'Captain Speke', offers Burton's last word on his fellow explorer. Provenance: A pencil note on the half-title of volume one indicates the this set belonged to Mary S. Lovell the Burton biographer (A Rage to Live, 1998). A second line in pencil underneath adds that the set was owned before by Quentin Keynes, son of the economist, explorer and book collector. Penzer pp. 88-9; Casada 72.
Seller: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Richard Burton. Zanzibar City, Island and Coast. Tinsley Bros., 1872.
Price: US$3200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2 vols, Ist editions in mismatched bindings, all contents present, scarce rebacked, Vol 1 is first printing, vol 2 is second printing same year as first with a lighter binding London, Bound in dark chocolate cloth, decoration of figure in gold on front board,Vol 1, pp xii, 503, one folding map, 4 plans and four plates, Ist issue Vol II, bound in lighter cloth without design of Indian pp vi, 519 Both volumes rebacked professionally, London Tinsley Bros. 1872, vol II has admiralty stamp and stamp indicating book was supplied for the public service.
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Burton, Richard F. Zanzibar; city, island & coast (2 volumes). Tinsley Brothers, 1872.
Price: US$3700.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full calf boards w/gilt decoration & red title bar are snugly bound, lightly rubbed & soiled from age & handling. Marbled endpapers & text block edges. Clean, bright pages throughout. previous owner's bookplate in both volumes - "iohannes Patricius Crichton Stuart Marchio de Bute" - in other words - 3rd Marquess de Bute, Wales - richest man in the world of his time (1847-1900)
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
BURTON, Richard F.. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. 2 vols.. 1872, 1872.
Price: US$4182.55 + shipping
Description: London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. Royal octavo, bound in contemporary half red calf with buckram boards. Marbled endpapers. Spines gilt and with raised bands. Top edge gilt and other edges uncut. With a folding map, 4 full-page plans, and 11 engraved plates. First edition. Zanzibar served as a base for the great journeys of exploration into Africa of the nineteenth century. Burton and John Hanning Speke set off from Zanzibar in 1857 on their expedition to the Great Lakes, also with the hope of discovering the source of the River Nile. This is a first edition of a most significant book on East Africa.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Burton, Richard Francis. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1872.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings with the maps and folding map present in volume 1. Both books in this two volume set are beautifully bound in early leather with raised bands and gilt on the spine. Each book has the black and white plates present.The bindings are tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the books. A superb copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. folding map, 4 plans, 11 plates, xii, 503, vi, 519p. Hardcover in original chocolate brown cloth with gilt stamped design of an Indian on front covers. 23cm. Corners frayed. Recased with new inner hinges. Original endpapers preserved. Other restoration includes releasing the free front endpapers from the pastedowns along the gutter areas. Minor chipping and tears at ends of backstrip have been repaired. Binder's conservation report laid in. INSCRIBED in Lady Burton's hand ("To Dear Uncle Robert with the best love of Richard and Puss Burton, January 22, 1872. Garswood") on the free front endpaper in Volume I. From the John Ralph Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate on the front pastedowns. Richard and Isabel Burton were married at Garwood, her Uncle Robert's home, in 1861. They stayed with or relied upon financial help from Isabel's Uncle Robert from time to time over the years.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Richard Francis Burton. Zanzibar, City, Island and Coast. Tinsley Bros., 1872.
Price: US$7200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: two volume first edition of Burton's work on Zanzibar dedicated to John Steinhaeuser and with a copy of letter to Steinhaeuser's nephew from W. S. Prideaux(at one time Assistant Resident and Magistrate in Aden}. The Letter is quite a warm note on Steinhaeuser with several references to Burton and is two type written pages. rebound magnificently in quarter red leather, All maps and illustrations present. Zanzibar, City , Island and Coast. / by /Richard Burton/In Two Volumes/London:/Tinsley Brothers, 18 Catharine St., Srand./1872./All Rights reserved./ First edition Vol. I pp xii +503, one folding map, four plans and four plates, all present, original decorated front board bound in. Vol.II pp vi +519 7 plates first issue, original front board bound in. Completely restored and bound in sumptuous quarter red leather by Keith Felton, ex lib with library stamp largely unnoticeable.
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Burton, Richard. Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1872.
Price: US$8125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue binding, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1]; folding map highlighted in blue, 11 wood-engraved plates (including 2 frontispieces), 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth, gilt vignette on upper covers, both volumes neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates, pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and half-title; a good, sound copy. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history, and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa, including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue, no. 49; Penzer, pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is, in my opinion, among the most important of his African-related studies."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Burton, Richard Francis. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. Tinsley Brothers, London, 1872, 1872.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Editions, First Printings of both books in this 2 (vol) set. A beautiful copy with the folding map 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 lovely copy in collector's condition. We buy Richard Burton First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.