Burton, Richard F., Lieut. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah . In three volumes. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London, 1855.

Price: US$9375.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, 3 folding maps, 13 lithograph plates (9 tinted, 5 chromos), plus 1 wood-engraved plate; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, black ornamental borders on covers; spines a bit soiled and spine ends cracked with minor loss, adhesion mark along back gutter of volume II, volume III of slightly varying color; all else very good and sound, unrestored. Laid into vol. I is a 9-line autograph postcard signed by Burton in purple ink, and dated Trieste May 9, 1885, thanking Sir H. G. Glaisher for the order of "2 copies of my work. I am on the point of embarking for England when I shall at once print 5 vols." Abbey, Travel, 368; Penzer, pp. 43-50; Casada 53: "This is the best known of all of Burton's original works."

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