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BURTON, RICHARD Zanzibar; city, island, and coast
London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, first issue binding, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1]; folding map highlighted in blue, 11 wood-engraved plates (including 2 frontispieces), 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth, gilt vignette on upper covers, both volumes neatly and expertly rebacked (by Phil Dusel) with original spines laid down, in all, a very good, sound copy. With an important presentation in the hand of Isabel Burton, inscribed on the front free endpaper of volume I: To Sir Henry Rawlinson with the best regards of his sincere friend, the author." Rawlinson (1810-1895) was an English orientalist and himself a traveller who spent much of his time in present-day Iran and Afghanistan. His work on the ancient Babylonian-Assyrian cuneiform scripts lead to the foundation of Assyrology. In 1874 he was elected president of the Royal Geographical Society. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history, and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa, including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue, no. 49; Penzer, pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is, in my opinion, among the most important of his African- related studies."
Offered for US$ 18750.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 32177