Zanzibar; city, island, and coast

by Richard Burton

$6,500 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

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 rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates, pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and

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