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BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir. Scinde. 1851. Second edition. -- Sind Revisited. FIRST EDITION.

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BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Scinde; Or, the Unhappy Valley. London: Richard Bentley, 1851.


2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, 2pp. publisher’s advertisements at end of each vol. (Some minor spotting.) Original dark green cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt-lettered, uncut (spines very slightly sunned, very slight wear to extremities, hinges just starting). Provenance: Henry Cram (signature, 1856).

Second edition, published the same year as the first. Burton’s account of northern Scinde, present-day southern Pakistan, resulted from his time working on the Sind Survey as an assistant to Sir Walter Scott’s nephew, Colonel Walter Scott, to whom this book is dedicated. Penzer, pp. 39-40; Spink 4. A BRIGHT COPY. 

[With:] BURTON. Sind Revisited: With notices of The Anglo-Indian Army; Railroads; Past, Present, and Future, etc. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1877. 2 volumes, 8vo (199 x 134 mm). Half-title in vol. I. (Lacking Half-title to vol. II, slight toning and minor soiling.) Early 20th-century half green morocco, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt, fore-edge uncut (minor wear to extremities, a touch soiling). FIRST EDITION. Penzer, pp. 94-95; Spink 58.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio
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