The Land of Midian Revisited

by Richard F. Burton

$2,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

Throughout the summer of 1877 I was haunted by memories of mysterious Midian. The Golden Region appeared to me in the glow of primaeval prosperity described by the Egyptian hieroglyphs; as rich in agriculture and in fertility, according to the old Hellenic travellers, as in its Centres of civilization, and in the precious metals catalogued by the Sacred Books of the Hebrews. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH of Burton's second expedition through Midian northwest Arabia .

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