Burton,, Sir Richard Francis

The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton; Albert Letchford; Leonard C. Smithers (Ed.) · 1897 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$812.56 (€516.71 | $569.52 | £431.01 | ¥90,956)

London H.S. Nichols Ltd A set of twelve quarto volumes (26 x 18 cms), each uniformly-bound in 3/4 wine-red leather over woven green cloth, with marbled endpapers and the top edges gilt. All volumes remain tightly-bound, with minor evidence of rubbing to the extremities. Each v...

The Illustrated Kama Sutra, Ananga-Ranga, Perfumed Garden _ The Classic Eastern Love Texts

Burton, Sir Richard Francis (trans); Fowkes, Charles (ed) · 1990 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Hardcover Small Quarto illustrated boards, dust jacket, 156 pp, onwer's note on front endpaper. Very good very good

Falconry in the valley of the Indus.London, Van Voorst, 1852. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece, 3 plates and with an 8-page publisher’s catalogue at the end. Original publisher's cloth.

BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. · 1821 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[16], 107, [1]; 8 pp.First edition with an inscription by the author, of a "well written" (Harting) work on traditional falconry in India and Pakistan, by the great British orientalist and explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). After finishing his education at Oxford...

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of the so called "Amazons", the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature. Two volumes. London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864.

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS: · 1863 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

Pp. ii-xvii, (3), 7-386; vi, 413, (1). Half title to volume one is missing. With two frontispieces. Narrowly cut in modern cloth. Second edition of Burton's account of his last major expedition to West Africa in 1863. Burton travelled to Dahomey (Benin) for the purpose of esta...

Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold and Diamond Mines. Also, Canoeing down 1500 Miles of the Great River Sâo Francisco, from Sabará to the Sea. Volume 1

SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON · 2002 · Erik Hanson (Books & Ephemera)

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Adamant Media Corporation. 2002. (ISBN: 1402188145). Soft cover. 443 pages. Good +, unmarked (no underlines, highlighter, owner names, etc). Used, but carefully. Volume 2. Good.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments with Introduction and Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights (Bassorah Edition, 16 Volumes Only, of 17)

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (TRANS) · 1903 · Round Table Books, LLC

$900.00 (€816.54 | £681.12 | ¥143,736)

London: The Burton Club. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bassorah Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 942. Publisher's full beige cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1903). Illustrated with numerous tissue-protected ha...

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night a Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments with Introduction and Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of the Nights (Bagdad Edition, Ten Volumes, Complete)

BURTON, SIR RICHARD FRANCIS (TRANS) · 1900 · Round Table Books, LLC

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

London: The Burton Club, N.D.. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bagdad Edition, limited to 1,000 copies, of which this is No. 957. Publisher's full light green cloth, paper labels on spines, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. nd (c. 1900). Illustrated with numerous tissue-pr...