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BURTON, Richard Francis. A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With notices of the so called "Amazons." The grand customs, the human sacrifices, the present state of the slave trade, and The Negro's Place in Nature. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864.
2 volumes, 8o (202 x 134 mm). Two engraved plates. Original purple cloth gilt, covers triple-ruled in blind and blocked in gilt, (some fading and staining to spines, upper hinge of vol. II starting).
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of one of Burton's better known and more sensational books, on his appointment as HBM Consul to Dahomey from his base in Fernando Po. His reports on slavery, eunuchs, human sacrifices, polygamy, circumcision (male and female) titillated the reading public though he admitted these practices were exaggerated by previous writers. Penzer p. 72-73; Casada 47; Spink 31.
2 volumes, 8
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of one of Burton's better known and more sensational books, on his appointment as HBM Consul to Dahomey from his base in Fernando Po. His reports on slavery, eunuchs, human sacrifices, polygamy, circumcision (male and female) titillated the reading public though he admitted these practices were exaggerated by previous writers. Penzer p. 72-73; Casada 47; Spink 31.