Item #84494 A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of the So-Called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature. Richard Francis Burton.

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. With Notices of the So-Called "Amazons," the Grand Customs, the Yearly Customs, the Human Sacrifices, the Present State of the Slave Trade, and the Negro's Place in Nature

London: Tylston & Edwards, 1893. Memorial edition. Hardcover. 2 vols. frontises, xxi, 256, viii, 305p. Original black cloth. 22cm. Some wear at ends of backstrip and at cover corners. Spines slightly sloped. Bookplates of W. R. Stuart Majendie and Burke Casari. Vols. III and IV in the seven uniformly-bound volumes edited by Borton's wife Isabel and published as the "Memorial Edition of the Works of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton." Very Good. Item #84494

Price: $250.00

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