Add this copy of The Gold-Mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite to cart. $959.00, very good condition, Sold by Aquila Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calgary, AB, CANADA, published 1878 by C. Kegan Paul & Co.
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Very good. 2nd Edition. xvi, 395, [5]pp., 30 pp. ads, [2]pp. Octavo. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams in text and large folding map. Original decorative red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Bevelled edges and black coated endpapers. Slight darkening to spine and edges of covers else a tight and clean copy of a scarce book. very good In pursuit of fortune in his waning years Burton traveled in November 1877 into the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, following the natives' tales of "ruined towns once prosperous with dense populations, of quarries where King Solomon found gold for the walls of the Temple, his drinking vessels, and his lion throne, of turquoise mines."(Rice, p. 433)
