Burton (Richard F.). Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast, 1st edition, 1872

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Burton (Richard F.). Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872, folding map (with repaired tear and laid down), 4 route maps, 11 wood-engraved plates, including frontispieces (that to volume 1 a trifle edge-frayed), each with pictorial bookplate 'Wm. H. Bartlett, Vermejo Park', top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmmed, early 20th century half calf, extremities rubbed with a little wear, volume 1 joints cracked, 8vo

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Penzer pp. 88-89.
Vermejo Park, New Mexico, was founded when William H. Bartlett of Chicago, Illinois bought 205,000 acres from the Maxwell Land Grant Company in 1902. Bartlett, a grain merchant who made his fortune in Chicago, built a powerplant and various properties on the land, stocked it with elk and trout, and expanded it to 300,000 acres before he died in 1918. Now covering 923 square miles, Vermejo Park Ranch is the largest privately owned, contiguous tract of land in the United States.