Burton, Sir Richard Francis

The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. (Including Some of the More Remarkale Incidents in the Life of Mohammed, the Arab Lawgiver). London: William Clowes and Sons, 1865



8vo (7 1/2 x 5 in.; 191 x 127 mm). Woodcut portrait of Burton. Original green coated paper wrappers; 2 short splits at spine ends.



 

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8vo (7 1/2 x 5 in.; 191 x 127 mm). Woodcut portrait of Burton. Original green coated paper wrappers; 2 short splits at spine ends.
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First edition, an impeccable and pristine copy of this great rarity. Burton published this pamphlet as an accompaniment to an exhibition by the Royal Polytechnic Institution of "dissolving views" made by Messrs. Childe and Hills  from his original drawings of his pilgrimage. The text corrects errors in the 1855–56 edition of his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah and supplies an account of the main rites associated with the Hajj as well as of the life, death, and burial of Mohammed.

Only nine copies of the work have appeared at auction in the past three decades, and few can be said to have been as well preserved as the present copy