The British explorer and Arabist Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) published over 40 books and countless articles, monographs and letters. Most of Burton's books are travel narratives or translations. His only works of original imaginative fiction are both in verse: Stone Talk (1865) and the well-known The Kasidah (1880), both of which he published under the pseudonym "Frank Baker".

A great number of Burton's journal and magazine pieces have never been catalogued.

Books 1850s Goa and the Blue Mountains (1851) Scinde or the Unhappy Valley (1851) Sindh and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus (1851) Falconry in the Valley of the Indus (1852) A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (1853) Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah 3 Vols. (1855-6). See also PDF facsimile First Footsteps in East Africa (1856). See also PDF Facsimile . The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (1859)

1860s The Lake Regions of Central Africa (1860) The City of the Saints, Among the Mormons and Across the Rocky Mountains to California (1861) Wanderings in West Africa (1863) Abeokuta and the Cameroon Mountains (1863) A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahomé (1864) The Nile Basin (1864) With James McQueen. Wit and Wisdom From West Africa (1865) Stone Talk (1865) The Guide-book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina (1865). Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil (1869)

1870s Letters From the Battlefields of Paraguay (1870) Vikram and the Vampire or Tales of Hindu Devilry (1870). See also PDF Facsimile. Unexplored Syria (1872) Zanzibar (1872) Ultima Thule (1872) The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798 (1873). Edited and translated by Burton. The Captivity of Hans Stade of Hesse, in A.D. 1547-1555, Among the Wild Tribes of Eastern Brazil. Translated by Albert Tootal and annotated by Richard F. Burton. A New System of Sword Exercise for Infantry (1876) Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo (1876) See also PDF Facsimile. Etruscan Bologna (1876) Sind Revisited (1877) The Gold Mines of Midian (1878) The Land of Midian (revisited) (1879)

1880s Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) (two volumes 1880) The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880). See also PDF Facsimile. A Glance at the Passion-Play (1881). To the Gold Coast for Gold 2 Vols. (1883). See also PDF Facsimile. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (1883) (with F. F. Arbuthnot). Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads (1883) Camoens. The Lyricks 2 Vols (1884) The Book of the Sword (1884) The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (ten volumes 1885) The Perfumed Garden of the Shaykh Nefzawi (1886) The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night (six volumes 1886 – 1888)

Posthumous Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton (translators). Priapeia sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus or Sportive Epigrams on Priapus by divers poets in English verse and prose. 1890 . (1893) Il Pentamerone; or, The Tale of Tales. Being a translation by the late Sir Richard Burton K.C.M.G., of Il Pentamerone; overo Lo Cunto de li Cunte, Trattemiento de li Peccarille, of Giovanni Battista Basile, Count of Torone (Gian Alessio Abbattutis)London: Henry and Co., 1893. The Carmina of Catullus. Now first completely Englished into Verse and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt. Sir Richard F. Burton, K.C.M.G., F.R.G.S., etc., etc., etc., and the Prose Portion, Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Illustrative by Leonard C. Smithers. H. S. Nichols & Co. (printed for the translators; for private subscribers only), London 1894 The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam (1898) The Sentiment of the Sword: A Country-House Dialogue (1911) Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration, N.M. Penzer, editor; London: Robert M. McBride (1924). Of No Country: An Anthology of the Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton, Frank McLynn, editor; London: Scribners (1990).

Articles, monographs, reviews and published correspondence

1840s "Notes Relative to the Population of the Sind; and the Customs, Language, and Literature of the People", Bombay Government Records, New Series No. 17, Part 2 (1847), pp. 637–57. "Brief Notes Relative to the Division of Time, and Articles of Cultivation in Sind; to Which Are Appended Remarks on the Modes of Intoxication in That Province", Bombay Government Records, New Series No. 17, Part 2 (1848), pp. 613–36. "A Grammar of the Jataki or Belohcki Dialect" (1849), Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. III, No. 12 (January), pp. 84–125. "Notes and Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtu or Afghan Language" (1849), Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. III, No. 12 (January), pp. 58–69.

1850s "Reply to review of Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" (1852), Athenaeum, 24 July, No. 1291, p. 804. "Reply to review of Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" (1853), The Zoologist, Vol. XI, pp. 3646–3648. "Journey to Medina, with Route from Yamba" (1854), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXIV, pp. 208–25. "A Journey from El-Medina to Mecca down the 'Darb el Sharki' on the Eastern Road (Hitherto Unvisited by Europeans) in September 1853" (1855), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXV, pp. 121–36. "Narrative of a Trip to Harar" (1855), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXV, pp. 136–50. "Defence of the Bashi-Bazouks" (1855), The Times (6 December). "Letter regarding Mecca" (1856), Athenaeum (5 April), No. 1484, p. 428. "Central Asia" (1856), The Times (19 February) "Notes from the Journal of the East African Expedition, Under the Command of Capt Richard F. Burton" (1857), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. II (1857–58), pp. 52–6; discussion pp. 56–8. "Zanzibar; and Two Months in East Africa" (1858), Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. LXXXIII, pp. 200–24, 276–90, 572–89. "A Coasting Voyage from Mombasa to the Pangani River; Visit to Sultan Kimwere; and Progress of the Expedition into the Interior" (1858), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 188–226. "Progress of the Expedition into the Interior" (1858), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXVIII (1858), pp. 220–6. "Explorations in Eastern Africa" (1858), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. III (1858–59), pp. 348–52. "Extracts from Reports by Captains Burton and Speke, of the East African Expedition, on Their Discovery of Lake Ujiji etc, in Central Africa" (1858), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. III (1858–59), pp. 111–16; discussion on pp. 116–17. "The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, with Notices of the Lunar Mountains and the Sources of the White Nile; Being the Results of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Patronage of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographical Society of London, in the Years 1857-1859" (1859), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. XXIX (1859), pp. 1–454. "Discussion" [on James Macqueen, Portuguese Journeys in Central Africa] (1859), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. III (1858–59), p. 363. "Presentation of the Royal Awards" (1859), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. III (1858–59), pp. 217–19. "Dr Livingstone", The Times, 8 October 1859.

1860s "Letter about plans after leaving Salt Lake City" (1860), Athenaeum, 17 Nov., No. 1725, p. 674 "Letter" (1860), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. V (1860–61), pp. 1–2. "Letters on Dahomey", Report of the African Aid Society, 1st Report (July 1860 to 31 March 1862), pp. 24–38 "Account of the Ascent of the Camaroons Mountain, in Western Africa" (1861–62), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. VI, pp. 238–48. "Ascent of the Ogun, or Abbeokuta River" (1861–62), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. VI, pp. 49, 64–6. "Letter from Capt. Richard Burton, F.R.G.S., H.M. Consul to Fernando Po, to Dr. Norton Shaw" (1861–62), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. VI, pp. 64–6. "The Ethnological Society", The Times, 8 July 1861. "Ethnological Notes on M. du Chaillu's Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa" (1861), Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, New Series, Vol. 1, pp. 316–26. "Letter: Kilimanjaro and its snows" (1862), Athenaeum, 19 July, No 1812, pp. 81–2. "Witnesses oaths, R. C. Henry Lemnos Statement of the Outrage Committed upon an English Factory in Benin River" (1862), Liverpool: Lee Nightingale. "Ascent of the Cameroon Mountains" (1862), [title only] Report of the British Association for 1862, p. 195. "The Ivory Trade of Zanzibar" (1862), The Technologist, Vol. II., pp. 225–8. "The Great Gorilla Controversy" (1862), The Times, 23 December. "Transportation" (1862), The Times, 31 December. "A Day amongst the Fans" (1863), Anthropological Review, Vol. 1(1863), pp. 43–54. "My Wanderings in West Africa: A Visit to the Renowned Cities of Wari and Benin" (1863), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. LXVII, pp. 135–57, 273–89, 407–22. "An Exploration of the Elephant Mountain in Western Equatorial Africa" (1863), Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, XXXIII, pp. 241–50. "Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, Relative to the Slave Trade" (1863), Accounts and Papers, Vol. XLIII for 1863 [Vol. LXXI in the overall series for that year]; London: Harrison & Sons; pp. xv, 316. "Notes on Certain Matters Connected with the Dahoman" (1863), Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. I (1863–64), pp. 308–21. "Penal Transportation" (1863), The Times, 9 January. "Penal Transportation" (1863), The Times, 27 January. "Camaroon Island for Convicts' (1863), The Times, 5 January. "Notes on Scalping" (1864), Anthropological Review, Vol. II, pp. 49-52. "Notes on Waitz's Anthropology" (1864), Anthropological Review, Vol. II, pp. 233–50. "On Skulls from Annabom, in the West African Seas" (1864), Anthropological Review, Vol. II, p. ccxxx. "The African Mystery" (1864), Athenaeum, 19 March, pp. 407–8. "The Nile Mystery" (1864), Athenaeum, 24 December, pp. 861–2. "African Discoveries" (1864), Athenaeum, 18 June, No. 1912, pp. 836–7. "Ethnology of Dahomey" (1864), Athenaeum, 1 October, No. 1927, p. 435. "On Lake Tanganyika" (1864), Athenaeum, 19 November, No. 1934, p. 677. "Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, Relating to the Slave Trade" (1864), London: Harrison & Sons. "Accounts and Papers" (1864), Vol. XXXV [Vol. LXVI in the overall series for that year]. "Lake Tanganyika, Ptolemy's Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile" (1864), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. IX (1864–65), pp. 6–8. "On the Present State of Dahome" (1864), Report of the British Association for 1864, pp. 137–9. "On the River Congo" (1864), Report of the British Association for 1864, pg 140. "The African Climate" (1864), Times, 16 June. "The Kames Mills" (1864), Times, 22 November. "The Nile Sources" (1864), Times, 23 September. "The Nile Mystery" (1865), Athenaeum, 14 January, p. 53. "From London to Rio de Janeiro: Letters to a Friend" (1865), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. LXXII, pp. 492–503; also Vol. LXXIII (1866), pp. 78–92, 496-510 and Vol. LXXIV (1866), pp. 159–78. "Discussion" (1865) [on H. B. Owen, "Missionary Successes and Negro Converts"], Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. III, pp. cciv-xi. "Discussion" (1865) [on S. Laing, "Some Ancient Shell-Mounds and Graves in Caithness"], Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. III, pp. iv-vi. "Discussion" (1865) [on W. Winwood Reade, "Efforts of Missionaries Among Savages"], Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. III (1865), pp. clxix-xv, clxxix, clxxxi. "Letter" (1865), Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, Vol. III, pp. ccxc-ccxcii.