ISBN10: 0705415007, ISBN13: 9780705415002, [publisher: Time-Life Books] Hardcover Complete in two volumes. Bound in uniform padded leather boards, with raised bands, gilt titles, and gilt and red lining and decoration. Page edges gilt. 210 x 140 mm. Vol 1: xxxiv [2], 209 [iii] pp + colour frontispiece, map & 1 colour plate. Vol 2: [xii] 276 [iv] pp + colour frontispiece, map & 1 colour plate. A well produced facsimile reprint of the memorial edition, edited by the author's wife Isabel Burton, published London: Tylston and Edwards, 1894. With publisher's bookplates fixed on front paste-down of vol.1 and laid in vol. 2. Both vols with blurb sheet laid in
[Macclesfield, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1983]

ISBN10: 0705415007, ISBN13: 9780705415002, [publisher: Time-Life Books. Belgium. 1982.] Hardcover (Hardcover, 1984). (1856) 1982 facsimile of 1894 Memorial Edition. Two volumes. 8vo (140 x 220mm). Ppxxxvi,209,x,277,i. Colour frontispieces, maps. Brown cushioned bonded leather, titled & decorated in gilt & red, marble-effect end-papers, all edges gilt, silk marker. Bookplate to Volume Two. A fine set. "First Footsteps in East Africa, or an Exploration of Harar by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton. Edited by his wife, Isabel Burton." In the guise of an Arab merchant, Burton travelled from Aden to the Moslem city of Harar in Ethiopia, forbidden to Europeans. .
[MACHYNLLETH, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1987]
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