Item #00008855 AEI; Arabia Egypt India; A Narrative of Travel. Isabel Burton.
AEI; Arabia Egypt India; A Narrative of Travel
AEI; Arabia Egypt India; A Narrative of Travel

AEI; Arabia Egypt India; A Narrative of Travel

London: William Mullan and Son, 1879. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii, 488, [1], 2-16 pages of publisher's advertisements, advertisements are illustrated with beautiful black and white wood engravings. Brown cloth with lettering and decorations stamped in silver and gold on the front board and spine. Illustrated with a color lithograph map as the frontispiece, a fold-out map, and twelve additional black and white plates. This is Lady Burton's travel narrative of her trip with her husband (R.F. Burton) through France and Italy to Egypt and the Middle East, and onward to India. She records their daily activities, what they ate and saw, and who they spoke to along the way. Lady Burton also reflects upon the diseases of the time, and the concern she had contracting cholera and small pox in the different parts of the world that she toured. Difficult to find in the original cloth. Very Good. Item #00008855

A Very Good book with traces of wear and rubbing to the extremities, especially to the corners and to the crown of the spine; fold-out map has two tiny closed tears.

Price: $1,000.00

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