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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. BURTON, Richard F. (1821-1890). The Land of Midian (Revisited). London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 2 volumes, 8vo. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, folding lithographed map, 16 plates (6 hand-colored lithographs including frontispieces), numerous in text wood-engravings. (Some light browning or spotting to preliminaries). Half contemporary morocco gilt, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands, top edges gilt, stamp-signed by Root & Son (light rubbing along joints). FIRST EDITION, of Burton’s 1877-78 second expedition into the Midian, which, like his first in 1877 (“The Gold Mines of Midian” published in 1878), was financed by the Khedive in Cairo as a search for gold. He mapped a 600-mile route through the northern and southern Midian recording its ruined ancient cities. For the Khedive in Cairo he brought back twenty-five tons of minerals to be assayed. A scarce work with only 1,000 copies being printed. Penzer, pp. 96-97.