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[ARABIAN NIGHTS] The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, with Supplemental Nights ... translated from the Arabic by Captain Sir R. F. Burton, London: H. S. Nichols & Co., 1894-[1897]. 12 volumes, 8° (250 x 157mm). Titles printed in red and black. (Occasional light spotting, a few front and rear leaves browned.) Original cloth gilt, top edges gilt (lightly rubbed, head and foot of spines bumped). Provenance: W. J. Havers (cut-out signatures). Library edition.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 133mm). Half tone portrait frontispiece of Isabel Burton, folding map and 14 lithographed plates, all but one coloured. (Short tear to map, hinges broken, occasional light spotting.) Original cloth gilt (lightly rubbed with head and foot of spines a little frayed). Memorial edition.
With Richard Burton's Vikram and the Vampire (London, 1870), Il Pentamerone (London, 1893, 2 vols.), Wanderings in Three Continents (New York, 1901), Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration (London, 1924), and The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton. The Story of her Life (London, 1897, 2 vols.). (21)
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis (1821-1890). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. 2 volumes, 8° (213 x 133mm). Half tone portrait frontispiece of Isabel Burton, folding map and 14 lithographed plates, all but one coloured. (Short tear to map, hinges broken, occasional light spotting.) Original cloth gilt (lightly rubbed with head and foot of spines a little frayed). Memorial edition.
With Richard Burton's Vikram and the Vampire (London, 1870), Il Pentamerone (London, 1893, 2 vols.), Wanderings in Three Continents (New York, 1901), Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration (London, 1924), and The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton. The Story of her Life (London, 1897, 2 vols.). (21)
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