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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. xix, 351pp; Index. Burgundy cloth HC with gilt lettering. Top page edges gilded. Contents clean and unmarked. No highlighting; no writing; no ownership or library markings. London bookseller sticker inside front cover. Engraved frontispiece of author loosened from binding which is not tight. Spine tail chipped; 3" closed edge tear at foot of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1898. Xx, 548 pages. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated cloth boards withfront cover features Burton as he appeared during his incognito visit to Mecca, rendered in colour and gilt titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn with chipping present to the crown of the spine). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Soldier, explorer, linguist, ethnologist, and controversialist. Mostly self-educated, he mastered half a dozen Eastern languages after joining the Army of the East India Company in 1842, and produced ground-breaking ethnological studies of Sindh in the early 1850s. He then completed a famous pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1853, disguised as a Pathan; became the first European to visit the forbidden city of Harrar in 1855; served with Beatson's Horse in the Crimea in 1855; led the expedition to East Africa that in 1858 discovered Lake Tanganyika and, through his deputy John Hanning Speke, the headwaters of the Nile, Lake Victoria Nyanza. After ascending the Cameroons Mountains in 1862, he led a notable mission to the King of Dahomey in 1863; rafted down the Rio São Francisco in Brazil in 1867; collaborated in the publication of the Kama Sutra and Ananga Ranga; and in the 1880s translated the poetry of Camoens from Portuguese, and the first unexpurgated 1000 Nights and a Night from Arabic. He wrote over 80 books, from travel and exploration to anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, poetry and Eastern Literature. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.