The Land of Midian, Set Tapa dura - 1979

England: Oleander Press, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Volume 1 is Fine in Near Fine dj Very faint edgewear to the jacket. Volume 2 is Near Fine in Very Good dj Lightly bumped corners. Jacket's spine is creased, A very attractive set.

New York: Oleander Press, 1984. Facsimile of 1879 Edition. Hardcover. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 2 volume set of Burton's travels to northern, central and southern Midian, now Saudi Arabia, with his drawings, inscriptions, and a detailed map. The original publishers' advertisements are omitted, the rendering of the chromolithographs are in monochrome, and a new Table of Concordance in included. DJspines sunned in mylar protectors. ; 2 Volume Set; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4

Cambridge: The Oleander Press, 1984. Two volumes. No marks or inscriptions. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked red cloth boards, very slight bumping to spine feet and no bumping to corners. Dust jackets not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to spine extremities from being constrained in protective sleeves. Both jackets now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeves. Large folded detailed map at end of Vol 2 in perfect condition. Total of 657pp. Burton's purported reason for visiting North West Arabia in 1877 to 1878 was gold prospecting but his real purpose was to study and survey the region scientifically. Facsimile edition of the 1879 edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.25 x 5.5 inches.

Cambridge: The Oleander Press 1984. 8vo. xxviii., xii., 338, 319 pp. Red hardcover with gilt lettering in pictorial jacket. Slight fading to spines and light spotting to jackets and verso. Internally clean. With a fold-out map at rear of vol. 2. A facsimile reprint of the original two-volume work published by Kegan Paul & Co. in 1879. The only changes are the omission of the original publishers' advertisements bound into the back of volume II, the rendering of the chromolithographs in monochrome and before the Preface to Volume 1, the inclusion of a new Table of Concordance between references from the 'Land of Midian' to the original 'Gold Mines of Midian' (1878) and to the new edition of the Gold-Mines of Midian prepared from the author's annotated copy by Philip Ward. This is a very nice copy, very clean bar a little bit of black marking to the free endpaper of the second volume. 0900891556 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1984.

Cambridge:: Oleander Press,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0900891556 . Complete in two volumes. Fold-out map. A reissue of the 1879 Kegan Paul edition. First printing thus. Both volumes are fine in fine dust jackets. .