Homosexuality.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Terminal Essay to "The

Homosexuality.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) Terminal Essay to "The Thousand and One Nights", mimeographed typescript in purple ink, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 50, slight insect damage to inner margin of title, restitched in original printed blue wrappers, bookplate of Robert Booth to front inside cover, a little rubbed, upper cover slightly creased and stained, rebacked, 4to, for private circulation only, 1901. ⁂ Burton's rare and notorious essay on "pederasty", originally issued as part of his translation of The Arabian Nights, "produced for private circulation among Scholars and Students of Sexual Psychology" to accompany John Addington Symonds's essay A Problem in Greek Ethics. The essay was the first openly published discussion of male homosexuality in English and in it Burton proposes the geographical existence of a "sotadic zone...which I hold to be geographical and climatic, not racial". This consisted of the area around the Mediterranean, the Levant, much of Asia, and the Americas. Homosexuality.- Burton (, Sir, Richard Francis), Terminal Essay to "The Thousand and One Nights", mimeographed typescript in purple ink, , out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 50, slight insect damage to inner margin of title, restitched in original printed blue wrappers, bookplate of Robert Booth to front inside cover, a little rubbed, upper cover slightly creased and stained, rebacked, 4to, for private circulation only, , 1901. ⁂ Burton's rare and notorious essay on "pederasty", originally issued as part of his translation of, The Arabian Nights, , "produced for private circulation among Scholars and Students of Sexual Psychology" to accompany John Addington Symonds's essay, A Problem in Greek Ethics, . The essay was the first openly published discussion of male homosexuality in English and in it Burton proposes the geographical existence of a "sotadic zone...which I hold to be geographical and climatic, not racial". This consisted of the area around the Mediterranean, the Levant, much of Asia, and the Americas print