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BURTON, Richard Francis.

Zanzibar:

City, Island, and Coast.

Stock Code
104296
London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872
£5,000

Scarce. Burton's long-lost, vast manuscript on Zanzibar, reappeared many years after its writing, affording Burton the opportunity of reliving his old Nile failure, and also the chance to write a serious appraisal of Speke's character and death. Beneath Zanzibar's exotic exterior, Burton found a state of near anarchy, disease, squalor, and a shamelessly open slave trade.

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Description

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xii, [i], 503; vi, [i], 519 pp., folding map 4 plans, 11 plates, original brown cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, small waterstain to first frontispiece outer margin, neat repairs to spine extremities and inner hinges, a very good set.

Bibliography

Casada 72; Howgego IV B96; Penzer 88-9.

Stock ID:104296

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