Lot 26
- 26
Burton, Richard Francis
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- Sind Revisited: with Notices of The Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, etc. London: Richard Bentley, 1877
- Paper, ink, leather
2 volumes, 8vo. Original grey-mauve cloth, upper covers decorated in black, lower covers in blind, gilt-lettered spines; some darkening to spines, some rubbing to joints and corners, remains of bookplate to front pastedown.
Literature
Penzer 94-95; Casada 61
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION. In 1876 Burton revisited India with Isabel, reviving amongst other things the memory of the Persian girl he had met outside Karachi more than twenty-five years earlier.