A Sketch of the Career of Richard F. Burton
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1886.
Softcover. Good. First edition under this title (first issued in 1880 as A Short Sketch by an 'Old Oxonian'). 96 pp, in flexible leather boards with title and date stamped in gilt. Text complete, but lacks frontispiece portrait, and binding is delicate, with considerable chipping to backstrip. The first biography of the great explorer and ethnographer. Penzer p. 306.
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