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The Burtons and the Middle East: a single owner collection

25 October 2018 | 10:30am

Please note this is an ONLINE ONLY sale. Viewing prior to the auction will take place at Bloomsbury Auctions (16-17 Pall Mall) at the times indicated below, not on the day of the auction.  
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    16/17 Pall Mall
    London
    SW1Y 5LU
  • Viewing Times
    Monday 22 October: 9.30am–5.30pm; Tuesday 23 October: 9.30am–5.30pm; Wednesday 24 October: 9.30am-5.30pm
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Richard Francis Burton, Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, six months of sick leave, first edition [London, Richard Bentley, 1851]
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Lot 1

Richard Francis Burton, Goa, and the Blue Mountains; or, six months of sick leave, first edition [London, Richard Bentley, 1851]

Estimate £600 - £800 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition [London, John Van Voorst, 1852]
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Lot 2

Richard Francis Burton, Falconry in the Valley of the Indus, first edition [London, John Van Voorst, 1852]

Estimate £3000 - £5000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 volumes, first edition [London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855-56]
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Lot 3

Richard Francis Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 volumes, first edition [London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855-56]

Estimate £3000 - £5000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, a Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, first edition, first issue [London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860]
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Lot 4

Richard Francis Burton, The Lake Regions of Central Africa, a Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, first edition, first issue [London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860]

Estimate £2000 - £3000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton (“A F.R.G.S.”), Wanderings in West Africa, from Liverpool to Fernando Po., first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1863]
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Lot 5

Richard Francis Burton (“A F.R.G.S.”), Wanderings in West Africa, from Liverpool to Fernando Po., first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1863]

Estimate £600 - £800 + fees

Richard Francis Burton “Frank Baker, D.O.N.”, Stone Talk (Lithofonema); being, Some of the Marvellous Savings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street,…, first and only edition [London, Robert Hardwicke, 1865]
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Lot 6

Richard Francis Burton “Frank Baker, D.O.N.”, Stone Talk (Lithofonema); being, Some of the Marvellous Savings of a Petral Portion of Fleet Street,…, first and only edition [London, Robert Hardwicke, 1865]

Estimate £8000 - £12000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864]
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Lot 7

Richard Francis Burton, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1864]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, first and only edition, printed for the author [London, Clowes & Sons, 1865]
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Lot 8

Richard Francis Burton, The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, first and only edition, printed for the author [London, Clowes & Sons, 1865]

Estimate £6000 - £8000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Lands of Cazembe, Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798…, first edition [London, Royal Geographical Society, John Murray, 1873]
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Lot 9

Richard Francis Burton, The Lands of Cazembe, Lacerda’s Journey to Cazembe in 1798…, first edition [London, Royal Geographical Society, John Murray, 1873]

Estimate £100 - £150 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry, first edition, first issue [London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870]
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Lot 10

Richard Francis Burton, Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry, first edition, first issue [London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry, first edition, second issue [London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870]
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Lot 11

Richard Francis Burton, Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry, first edition, second issue [London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870]

Estimate £100 - £150 + fees

Richard Francis Burton and Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake, Unexplored Syria, Visits to the Libanus, the Tutûl el Safà, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ‘Alàh, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872]
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Lot 12

Richard Francis Burton and Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake, Unexplored Syria, Visits to the Libanus, the Tutûl el Safà, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ‘Alàh, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872]

Estimate £300 - £400 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland, 2 volumes, first edition [London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1875]
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Lot 13

Richard Francis Burton, Ultima Thule, or a Summer in Iceland, 2 volumes, first edition [London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1875]

Estimate £300 - £400 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Etruscan Bologna, first edition [London, Smith, Elder& co., 1876]
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Lot 14

Richard Francis Burton, Etruscan Bologna, first edition [London, Smith, Elder& co., 1876]

Estimate £300 - £400 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, A New System of Sword Exercise, first edition [London, William Clowes and Sons, 1876]
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Lot 15

Richard Francis Burton, A New System of Sword Exercise, first edition [London, William Clowes and Sons, 1876]

Estimate £2000 - £3000 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Sind revisited, 2 volumes, first and only edition [London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1877]
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Lot 16

Richard Francis Burton, Sind revisited, 2 volumes, first and only edition [London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1877]

Estimate £300 - £400 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midinite Cities, A Fortnight’s Tour in North-Western Arabia, first edition [London, C. Kegan Paul & co., 1878]
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Lot 17

Richard Francis Burton, The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midinite Cities, A Fortnight’s Tour in North-Western Arabia, first edition [London, C. Kegan Paul & co., 1878]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Land of Midan, revisited, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition [London, C. Kegan Paul & co, 1879]
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Lot 18

Richard Francis Burton, The Land of Midan, revisited, vol. 1 only (of 2), first edition [London, C. Kegan Paul & co, 1879]

Estimate £100 - £150 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusidas, author’s personal proof copy with manuscript annotations throughout [London, probably Wyman & Sons for Bernard Quaritch, 1879-1880]
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Lot 19

Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusidas, author’s personal proof copy with manuscript annotations throughout [London, probably Wyman & Sons for Bernard Quaritch, 1879-1880]

Estimate £400 - £600 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, A Glance at the “Passion-play”, first and only edition [London, W.H. Harrison, 1881]
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Lot 20

Richard Francis Burton, A Glance at the “Passion-play”, first and only edition [London, W.H. Harrison, 1881]

Estimate £150 - £200 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, first reprint, for private circulation only [London, for the Kama Shastra Society, 1883]
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Lot 21

Richard Francis Burton, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, first reprint, for private circulation only [London, for the Kama Shastra Society, 1883]

Estimate £300 - £400 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Sword, first and only edition [London, Chatto and Windus, 1884]
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Lot 22

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Sword, first and only edition [London, Chatto and Windus, 1884]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Vanity Fair portrait of Richard Francis Burton “The Arabian Nights” [London
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Lot 23

Vanity Fair portrait of Richard Francis Burton “The Arabian Nights” [London

Estimate £100 - £150 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night…, together with the Supplemental Nights, 16 volumes, first edition “Original Edition”, privately printed [London, Benares for the Kamashastra Society, 1885-88]
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Lot 24

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night…, together with the Supplemental Nights, 16 volumes, first edition “Original Edition”, privately printed [London, Benares for the Kamashastra Society, 1885-88]

Estimate £800 - £1200 + fees

Francis Hitchman, Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G.: His Early, Private and Public Life with an Account of his travels and Explorations, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Simpson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887]
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Lot 25

Francis Hitchman, Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G.: His Early, Private and Public Life with an Account of his travels and Explorations, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Simpson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887]

Estimate £150 - £200 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Il Pentamerone; or the Tale of Tales, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Henry & co., 1893]
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Lot 26

Richard Francis Burton, Il Pentamerone; or the Tale of Tales, 2 volumes, first edition [London, Henry & co., 1893]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, Collection of four Memorial Editions of Works, with an a.l.s from Burton’s nephew Joseph R. Smyth-Pigott [all London, Tylstone & Edwards, 1893-94]
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Lot 27

Richard Francis Burton, Collection of four Memorial Editions of Works, with an a.l.s from Burton’s nephew Joseph R. Smyth-Pigott [all London, Tylstone & Edwards, 1893-94]

Estimate £600 - £800 + fees

Richard Francis Burton and Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catallus, first and only edition, for private subscribers only [London, printed for the translators, 1894]
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Lot 28

Richard Francis Burton and Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catallus, first and only edition, for private subscribers only [London, printed for the translators, 1894]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Albert Letchford (Artist), A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R. F. Burton’s “Arabian Nights”, first edition, D series [London, H. S. Nichols, 1897]
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Lot 29

Albert Letchford (Artist), A Series of Seventy Original Illustrations to Captain Sir R. F. Burton’s “Arabian Nights”, first edition, D series [London, H. S. Nichols, 1897]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees

Richard Francis Burton, The Kasidah of Haji Abdu al-Yazdi, third edition, one of 250 copies only [London, H.J. Cook, 1900]
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Lot 30

Richard Francis Burton, The Kasidah of Haji Abdu al-Yazdi, third edition, one of 250 copies only [London, H.J. Cook, 1900]

Estimate £200 - £300 + fees