Burton (Sir Richard Francis)

FIRST FOOTSTEPS IN EAST AFRICA OR AN EXPLORATION OF HARAR ( 2 Volumes)

MEMORIAL EDITION

Published: Tylston & Edwards, London, 1894

Edition: First Edition thus

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Published by London, Tylston and Edwards, 1894. 2 volumes.  (21 x 13 cm). pp.xxxiv+[ii]+208; 276+3, ads

Very good + publisher's original black cloth, covers stamped with gilt vignettes and Arabic script, spine lettered in gilt, black-coated endpapers, top edges dyed red. 4 coloured lithographic plates including tissue-guarded frontispieces to both volumes, two full-page maps, and numerous vignettes . Internally very good.

A seminal work recording Burton's first expedition into Somalia. His purpose was to explore the forbidden Moslem city of Harar, "a city whose walls no European had ever penetrated,"

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo
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