BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration. London: A. M. Philpot, 1924. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE. [With:] Autograph note SIGNED BY BURTON.
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Lot Description
BURTON, Richard Francis, Sir (1821-1890). Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration. London: A. M. Philpot, 1924.
8vo. Original publisher’s brown cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (some light soiling, spine ends slightly worn, old discreet repair to head of spine, some browning to endpapers); quarter brown morocco folding case. Provenance: Fairfax Downey (1893-1990), American writer and military historian (gift inscription from); Harold Morton Landon, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross.
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 38 of 100 copies on handmade paper. Edited by Penzer, this collection of the “rarer and more inaccessible of Burton’s articles” was published the year after his Burton bibliography.
[With:]
BURTON. Autograph note signed (“R. F. B.”), to an unnamed recipient. The Granville, Ramsgate, 4 August. 1 page, 12mo, on thick card mounted to front pastedown of above. “Here we are for a while. Air delightful. Hotel abominable…Should stay till about 20th Tues. Au revoir when we return.”
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