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Lot 74
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[BURTON, Isabel (1831-1896) and Sir Richard Francis BURTON (1821-1890), translators]. ALENCAR, Jose Mariniano de (1829-1877). Iracema the Honey-Lips a Legend of Brazil… Translated, with the Author’s Permission, by Isabel Burton. [Bound with:] SILVA, João Manuel Pereira da (1817-1898). Manuel de Moraes a Chronicle of the Seventeenth Century… Translated by Richard F. and Isabel Burton. London: Bickers & Son, 1886.
2 works in one volume, 8vo (170 x 112 mm). (Slight toning and soiling.) Late 19th-century half dark green morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Root & Son (slight wear to extremities). Provenance: Robert Heysham Sayre (1824-1907), Vice President of Lehigh Valley Railroad (bookplate); Thomas Barbour (1884-1946), American herpetologist (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of the Burton translations of these 2 Brazilian novellas from the original Portuguese. Before Richard returned to England on 1 June 1896 from the battlefields of Paraguay, Isabel found publishers for 3 large manuscripts written during their time in Brazil during Burton’s 4-year consulship at Santos, of which her translation of Iracema was one. Penzer, pp. 149-150 (“two charming stories”); Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, p.506.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio