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Exploration and Travel Literature, Various Owners
Lot 17

BURTON, RICHARD. 1821-1890.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-1856.

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BURTON, RICHARD. 1821-1890.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855-1856.
3 volumes. 4to. 14 plates, including 5 chromolithographic plates and 8 tinted lithographic plates, one folding engraved map, 3 plans (2 folding), 24 pp publisher's catalogue (dated September 1854) at end of volume I. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in black on covers, gilt lettered on spine, terracotta printed endpapers, binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down of volume III. Rubbed, corners bumped, hinges cracking, partially removed library check-out list on front paste-down of volume III, scattered browning.

FIRST EDITION of "one of the greatest works of travel ever published" (Penzer). Burton, the first English Christian to enter Mecca (performing the Hajj disguised as a Muslim), was also the first to travel between the Holy Cities of Islam by way of the Eastern route. Abbey Travel 368; Penzer, pp 49-50.

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