8vo (203 x 122 mm). Lithographic frontispiece. (Evenly toned.) Original dark brown cloth-backed printed light pink boards (boards and spine faded, some soiling and minor wear to extremities).

FIRST EDITION, “EXCEEDINGLY RARE” (Penzer). While Burton wrote Goa, and the Blue Mountains 40 years before, the publisher issued this brochure due to the increased interest in Goa toward the end of 1890. Public attention had been focused on Goa following the political unrest surrounding elections and the 21 September Revolt of 1890, which resulted in the killing of 17 protesters and wounding of many others. The frontispiece depicts Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), a Spanish Catholic Missionary who led Portuguese missions in Portuguese India and proposed the Goan Inquisition to enforce Catholic Orthodoxy. Burton's chapters span pp. 1-78 and are followed by 2 articles from Madras Mail and Madras Times published in October and November of 1890 from pp.79-117, both of which largely discuss the upcoming Exposition of Saint Francis Xavier’s relics scheduled for 3 December 1890 to 1 January 1891. Penzer, pp. 38-39; Spink 2 (“most rare”). VERY SCARCE: According to Penzer, there was no record of this work sold at auction nor in retail catalogs by 1923; according to online records, no copy of this work has appeared at auction in nearly 20 years.