Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast by Burton, Richard F - 1872

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition. With 11 wood-engraved plates, folding map hand-colored in outline, and 4 sketch maps. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1] pp. Half titles. 2 vols. 8vo. Half brown morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, t.e.g. A fine copy. First edition. With 11 wood-engraved plates, folding map hand-colored in outline, and 4 sketch maps. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1] pp. Half titles. 2 vols. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Inscribed by Burton on the front free-endpaper, "from the author", below his ink stamp. Presentation copies of Burton's travel works are uncommon. Burton's account of Zanzibar was written in 1856 while he was making preprations there to set out on his expedition with Speke for the source of the Nile, but the manuscript was lost for more than a decade before it resurfaced. Penzer pp 88-89. Provenance: W.A. Foyle (morocco labels of Beeleigh Abbey)