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A collection of articles, translations, essays, and reviews : on anthropological, ethnological, and geographical subjects, together with other matter and illustrations
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Author's proof for the terminal essay for Arabian nights
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Corrected proof of the terminal essay written by Sir Richard Burton for the 10-volume Kamashastra Society edition of his translation of Arabian Nights. Includes marginalia, handwritten notes and typed corrections laid in throughout. Corrections written on pages in ink and pencil in various colors.
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Notes on the exploration of the Tulúl el Safá, the volcanic region east of Damascus, and the Umm Nírán Cave ; On the Ukara, or the Ukerew Lake of Equatorial Africa
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Bound edition of the volume 16, no. 2 (February 27, 1872) issue of Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Features two articles written by Sir Richard F. Burton. Copy also includes clipping from Vanity Fair, October 25, 1883 issue, with the caption" Men of the Day -- No. CCCXLIII. Captain Richard Francis Burton."
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Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890. 57 letters and 1 postcard to W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby, 1844-1912, (1885-1890), London (Eng.) and Trieste (Austria)
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Note: bound volume, with envelopes; two letters (9a & 53a) laid into volume. Letters bound together with essay (15 p.) and notes by Norman M. Penzer. Also enclosed: four Isabel Burton letters to W. F. Kirby, (1887-1891), one W. F. Kirby letter to Richard Burton (1887, Dec. 18), one W. F. Kirby letter to Oliver Notcutt, (1888, Jan. 5). Cataloger's note: a bound volume of typewritten transcriptions cataloged separately in Ephemera; pencilled page numbers supplied by an earlier cataloger.
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[Zayn al Asnán, and Aladdin: Arabic text], 1 vol., ([before 1888]). Kirkpatrick Catalogue: 2547
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Note: with autograph notes by Richard Burton & Hermann Zotenberg; also letter from Zotenberg to Burton, Apr. 3, 1888, laid into volume. Water damage and spine damage; very fragile -- handle carefully. Cataloger's Note: original manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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Young, Elbert Anderson. R.F. Burton's Thousand and One Nights - Extra-Illustrated: List of illustrations and article, 3 pieces, ([ca. 1930?])
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Collection of Burtoniana -- correspondence, manuscripts, research papers, and ephemera -- assembled by Edwards H. Metcalf over more than thirty years. The collection contains personal, official, business, and social correspondence and manuscripts of Sir Richard Francis Burton and Lady Isabel Burton, chiefly covering the period of Burton's consulship in Trieste and Lady Burton's life after her husband's death.
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[Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890]. "Le Capt Burton declare que les efforts pour avaneer les interests de L‟Egypte…:" [seven articles of agreement?], A.MS. (4 p.), ([1877?])
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In French. Also enclosed: autograph copy of the articles by Isabel Burton (4 p.) and autograph receipt, written by Richard Burton, for "Three Boxes…," signed by Ph Lech, n.d. (1 p.).
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