2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 139 mm). Half-titles, 11 engraved plates, folding lithographed map with hand-colored coasts, 4 engraved plans. (A few gatherings roughly opened, map with a few short tears or separations along folds crossing into image, slight spotting.) 20th-century black half calf (rebacked preserving spines and morocco lettering-pieces gilt, slight soiling, a touch of wear to extremities). Provenance: some later pencil annotations.

FIRST EDITION, unknown issue without original cloth. Much of the material published in Zanzibar was collected by Burton in 1856 while on the Royal Geographical Society-funded mission to find the source of the Nile with Speke in 1856 before they traveled to Lake Tanganyika. In 1871 upon returning to England from Damascus in financial hardship, he found and published the long-lost manuscript of his travels in Zanzibar, pressuring John Tinsley into a speedy publication. Overall, Zanzibar was received well despite many readers’ dislike of derogatory comments about Speke related to their feud. Penzer, pp. 88-89; Spink 49.