Lot 212
  • 212

Burton, Richard Francis

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Burton, Richard Francis
  • Sindh, and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus. London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1851
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, viii, 422pp., dedication leaf, folding map on light blue paper, original blindstamped orange-brown ribbed cloth, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Literature

Casada 60; Penzer, p.40

Condition

A fine copy
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Catalogue Note

“The most successful [book] of Burton’s Indian quartet. It was a brilliant, scholarly, imaginative work of ethnology – the work that first revealed Burton as a highly talented anthropologist” (Frank McLynn, Snow Upon the Desert, p.54).