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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. XIX, 351 pages, include 5 page index, last two leaves still uncut. 25 x 18 cm.¾ red leather with slight wear. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Burton with facsimile of his signature, tissue-protected. Title printed in red and black. 1st edition of this collection of 3 essays unpublished before Burton's death in 1890. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; title & author lettered in gilt on spine. Printed by Hazell, Watson, and Viney, LD., London and Aylesbury. A collection of three essays which remained unpublished until 1898. Material was first collected while in the consular service at Damascus from 1869-71, but the manuscript was not finished until 1874 while in London. Twice he considered publishing it, but each time was advised to withhold it due to its anti-Semitic content. To this day, it is an embarrassment to Burton biographers and devotees. Burton began his research for "The Gypsy" while he was lieutenant in the Bombay Army quartered in Sindh, and continued gathering material for the next thirty years in his travels mostly in Asia, but also in Africa, South America, and Europe. In contrast with his hatred for Jews, he felt a close affinity to the Gypsies. His wife stated that although it was not certain whether he himself had Gypsy lineage, 'he showed many of their peculiarities in appearance, disposition, and speech - speaking Romany like themselves. Nor did he ever enter a Gypsy camp without their claiming him: "What are you doing with that black coat on?' they would say 'why don't you join us and be our king?'" Burton's close emotional tie to the Gypsy psyche make this ethnographic study especially rich and worthwhile the last essay was probably written soon after his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1853, about the time of the poem "The Kasidah." It was an insider's look at the Muslim faith and way of life, since Burton lived amongst Arab pilgrims and visited their most sacred pilgrimage sites. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of Arabic language, sexual practices and life. His work reveals a profound acquaintance with the vocabulary and customs of the Muslims, with their classical idiom as well as colloquialisms, philosophy, modes of thought and intimate details. Burton supported the blood libel of Damascus: The Infamous Damascus Blood Libel . Arnold Fine Jewish Press January 18, 2002: The canard that "Jews use Christian blood to make Passover matzos" plagued Jewish communities worldwide for centuries. The blood libel led to many massacres of Jews throughout the Middle Ages and pogroms in Russia, was revived by the Nazis, and has been used by anti-Zionists to our day. While it is well known that blood libels thrived in Christian Europe, it is less known that this scourge reached Moslem lands as well. The Damascus Blood Libel began in Syria in 1840. At that time, the great European powers were gravely concerned about the fate of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Syria was ruled by Muhammed Ali, then ruler of Egypt, and France supported his rule. Austria and Great Britain supported Turkey, and were anxious to prevent the extension of French influence in the Middle East. On February 5, 1840, an elderly Italian monk, Padre Tomaso de Camangiano, Superior of a Capuchin cloister in Damascus, vanished without a trace, together with his servant. Foul play was suspected. There was a rumor that a few days before the monk's disappearance, he had been involved in a quarrel with a Turkish mule driver. According to rumors, during the dispute, the Turk heard Father Tomaso blaspheme the prophet Muhammed and had sworn, "that dog of a Christian shall die by no other hand but mine!" Tomaso's fellow monks deliberately ignored this rumor, and preferred to spread the story that their Superior had been murdered by the Jews for ritual purposes. The French consul in Damascus at that time was a vicious individual by the name of Ratti Menton. He accepted the blood libel charges, and suggested that the investigation be turned over to. . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Burton with facsimile signature in both Latin and Arabic script, with tissue guard, XIX, 351, (1) pages. 25 x 18 cm. Top edge gilt. 3/4 leather binding. Last two leaves still uncut. Burton's work here on the Jews is a vile anti semitic one. Some of it deals with the Jews of Damascus, where Burton was a British Consul in the British Foreign Service. Burton was in Damascus with his wife during the Damascus affair of 1869-1871. "The Gypsy" material was gathered over three decades and was completed c. 1880, and "'El Islam" is based on a manuscript Burton wrote soon after his return from Mecca in 1853. These three works were in Burton's unpublished material at his death. El Islam Although Burton's essays might appear detached and analytical, they are anything but that, See Penzer, p158; Casati, 41. No expense was spared in producing this edition with its very attractive binding, typography, and high quality paper. What a pity that the quality of the book production does not extend to some of the despicable contents Burton wrote here. The editor, Wilkins, is an anti Semite in his own right, like so many Englishman of his day, and of today. Wilkins writes in his preface, page X, that as executor of Burton's estate he feels an obligation to publish the anti semitic portions he was entrusted with, but that he has "thought it better to hold over for the present the Appendix on the alleged rite of Human Sacrifice among the Sephardim and the murder of Padre Tomaso." For Wilkins the blood libel against the Jews is not discredited. It's an "allegation.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. xix, 351pp; Index. Burgundy cloth HC with gilt lettering. Top page edges gilded. Contents clean and unmarked. No highlighting; no writing; no ownership or library markings. London bookseller sticker inside front cover. Engraved frontispiece of author loosened from binding which is not tight. Spine tail chipped; 3" closed edge tear at foot of spine.