Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton : The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra, and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990. Later printing. Hardcover, in dust jacket.
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Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) [with] Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads [with] The Lyricks. Together Six Volumes.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880, 1881, 1884. First editions. One-half crushed red morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf, spines decoratively gilt. Sometimes compared to Homer's Odyssey, The Lusiads is Camoens masterpiece and is considered by some to be Portugal's national epic. Burton's translation and work on Camoens was originally projected to.....
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