Bloomsbury Auctions will offer a single-owner sale of books and manuscripts by and associated with the 19th century polymath Richard Francis Burton (1821-90).
Titled The Burtons and the Middle East, the collection runs to 35 lots and will be offered in a timed online-only auction concluding on October 25. This personal first edition copy of Burton’s Falconry in the Valley of the Indus from 1852 is estimated at £3000-5000.