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2008/06/13.

• Added the pamphlet Thermae of Monfalcone, and the original articles from The Field of 1881, also titled 'Thermae of Monfalcone' (and not 'Curious Cures' contrary to Penzer).

2008/05/30.

• Added a new edition of the exceptionally rare pamphlet Three Months at Abbazia (1888), Burton's entertaining grumble about his holiday in Istria.

2008/05/14.

• Better facsimile of Goa and the Blue Mountains (thanks to James Gifford) and some of the color plates.

2008/04/15.

• Added an image of the commemorative stamp issued in 1958 to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of Lake Tanganyika by Burton and Speke [thanks to Pushpendra Shah / Nairobi].

2008/03/25.

• Added complete facsimile of Sindh and the Races that Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851) [thanks to Pascal for doing the hard work on this].

2007/12/14.

• Added complete facsimile of The Book of the Sword (1884).

2007/11/02.

• Added the massive 450-page book-length paper "The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa" (JRGS, 1859), the superior precursor to the later book The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860).

2007/11/01.

• Added two complete facsimiles of The Sentiment of the Sword (1911), a series of articles reprinted from The Field.
• Added facsimiles of nearly 200 of Burton's journal and magazine pieces.

2007/09/02.

• Added the previously missing chapter "Horseflesh" from Volume 1 of Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (1872).  So the complete two volume set, which is very hard to find in the original, is now available here in facsimile.

2007/08/18.

• Added images from the suppressed Appendix IV (on female circumcision) of First Footsteps in East Africa.

2007/08/10.

• Added the second volume of Os Lusiadas (1880).  Hence the entire 6-volume series on Camoens is now available here.
• Added the second volume of Camoens: the Lyricks, Englished by Richard F. Burton.

2007/07/16.

• Complete facsimiles of Isabel Burton's two volume Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, with the cover designs.
• Volume 2 of Wanderings in West Africa.

2007/07/13.

• Complete facsimile, from an original, of the highly collectable A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise.
• Volume 2 of Ultima Thule.
• Volume 2 of The Land of Midian Revisited.

2007/07/11. 

• Added Walter Phelps Dodge's hagiography The Real Sir Richard Burton (1907).
• The first edition of Bate Richards' A Short Sketch of the Career of Captain Richard F. Burton. 
• A facsimile of the exceptionally rare Stone Talk by "Frank Baker" (Richard Burton).
• A facsimile of Burton's translation of Il Pentamerone.