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RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890)
Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave. London: Samuel Bentley & Co. for Richard Bentley, 1851. 8° in 12s (196 x 120mm). Half-title. Lithographic frontispiece of view of old Goa and 3 tinted lithographic plates printed by Hullmandel & Walton after drawings by Burton, folding lithographic map printed by Hullmandel & Walton. (Very light off-setting from plates.) Original blind-stamped, ribbed light fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original lemon yellow endpapers (corners bumped, extremities and head of joints lightly rubbed, hinges split). Provenance: John Petty Muspratt (1775-1855, Director of the East India Company, booklabel on upper pastedown; by descent to:) -- Rosa Julia Muspratt, 1855 (inscription on booklabel).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Burton's first published book. In 1846, serving as a British army officer in India, Burton contracted rheumatic ophthalmia and was sent to the Nilgiri Hills to recuperate. At the end of a six month convalescence, Burton supposedly attempted an elopement with a pretty nun from the convent of Santa Monica near the British rest-station at Ootacamund, but in the darkness mistakenly carried off the sub-prioress instead, 'more like Gujerat ape than mortal man'. RARE: only 2 copies of the first issue of the first edition in the original cloth are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Penzer, pp.37-38.
Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, Six Months of Sick Leave. London: Samuel Bentley & Co. for Richard Bentley, 1851. 8° in 12s (196 x 120mm). Half-title. Lithographic frontispiece of view of old Goa and 3 tinted lithographic plates printed by Hullmandel & Walton after drawings by Burton, folding lithographic map printed by Hullmandel & Walton. (Very light off-setting from plates.) Original blind-stamped, ribbed light fawn cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original lemon yellow endpapers (corners bumped, extremities and head of joints lightly rubbed, hinges split). Provenance: John Petty Muspratt (1775-1855, Director of the East India Company, booklabel on upper pastedown; by descent to:) -- Rosa Julia Muspratt, 1855 (inscription on booklabel).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE of Burton's first published book. In 1846, serving as a British army officer in India, Burton contracted rheumatic ophthalmia and was sent to the Nilgiri Hills to recuperate. At the end of a six month convalescence, Burton supposedly attempted an elopement with a pretty nun from the convent of Santa Monica near the British rest-station at Ootacamund, but in the darkness mistakenly carried off the sub-prioress instead, 'more like Gujerat ape than mortal man'. RARE: only 2 copies of the first issue of the first edition in the original cloth are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. Penzer, pp.37-38.
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