The Land Of Midian

Red cloth boards with gilt particulars to faded spines. Significant wear to head and tail of spine (q.v.). Five (of six) chromolithographic plates (lacking Umm el-Karayyat at page 158). Bumps to fore edge corners. Bookplate of previous owner to front pastedowns. Fold out map to rear of vol. II. ; xxviii,338;vii,319 pages.

London: Kegan Paul. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Burton's second expedition through Midian (northwest Arabia). Although Burton failed to unearth the vast amounts of gold he believed were in the region, the expedition, sponsored by the Egyptian Khedive Ismail I, was a major geographical and archaeological success. Complete with folding map, 6 colored… Read more about this item

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879.. First edition. Two volumes. xxviii, 338; viii, 319, (1) pp. Contemporary brown full calf, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered red labels, blindstamped decoration to the panels and an ornate border to the boards, marbled endpapers, prize bookplates from the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys to the front pastedowns, all edges red.… Read more about this item

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. Burton's 1877-78 second expedition into the Midian, which, like his first in 1877, was financed by the Khedive in Cairo as a search for gold. He mapped a 600-mile route through the northern and southern Midian recording its ruined ancient cities. For the Khedive in Cairo, he brought back 25 tons of… Read more about this item

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 338; vii, [1], 319, plus 32p. publisher's catalogue; folding map, 16 plates (6 of them chromolithographs), a folding map and 17 illustrations in the text; original pictorial ochre cloth stamped in black and gilt; rear hinge starting on volume I, hinges cracked on volume II,… Read more about this item

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. Burton's gold-hunting in Midian and his attempts to enlist the Khediv of Egypt as his partner were a failure, but he produced another fascinating account, filled with keen observation. Here are the two volumes of the First Edition, in a contemporary rebind. [Penzer, pp 96-97; Casada #45]. Red cloth boards with tips and… Read more about this item

Cambridge:: Oleander Press,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0900891556 . Complete in two volumes. Fold-out map. A reissue of the 1879 Kegan Paul edition. First printing thus. Both volumes are fine in fine dust jackets. .

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. xxviii,338;vii,319,32pp. adspp. Octavo. Illustrated with coloured lithographic plates (including frontispiece), drawngs in text and folding map. Original decorative orange cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Bevelled edges and black coated endpapers. Covers are slightly faded. Three small diiscreet blind stamps in… Read more about this item

C. Kegan Paul & Co, 1879-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. Original orange cloth. xxviii, 338, vii, 319 p.; 16 plates (6 of which are colored lithographic plates, including the frontises), folding map. Darkening to spine, minor soiling and rubbing to boards. Shaken, several gutters cracked, plates verso of Chapter 4 starting to loosen from binding, plans… Read more about this item

London:: C. Kegan Paul & Co.,, 1879.. First edition.. rebound in full sheep.. Half-titles tanned; a few pages in Vol. II roughly opened.. 8vo,. Illustrations on wood and six chromo-lithographed plates. This copy lacks the folding map. . Bookplate in each volume of Archibald Roosevelt, Jr.

London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879 2 vols. 8vo. contemporary half leather gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers & leaf edges (ex-State Parliamentary Library of New South Wales with gilt stamp on upper boards, otherwise unmarked; bindings a little rubbed with light sunning to cloth, top edges dusty, scattered spotting, mostly to prelims. & around folding map, but generally… Read more about this item

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