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McDERMOTT, P.L.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., folding...
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[Ethiopic] Sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Lexicon Æthiopico-Latinum,
LUDOLF, Hiob.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...
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De Abassinorum rebus, deque Aethiopiae Patriarchis
GODINHO, Nicolao.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...
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Manuscript travel diary, 1913-23.
[ABYSSINIA].Original price £3,600.00 - Original price £3,600.00Original price £0.00£3,600.00£3,600.00 - £3,600.00Current price £3,600.00| /Slavers, hunters and murderers; Abyssinia travel diary 1913-23. An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the...
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The highlands of Æthiopia.
HARRIS, Major William Cornwallis.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843. 'The author gives us in...
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The life and adventures of...
PEARCE, Nathaniel.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...
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An account of the English Mission
PORTAL, GeraldOriginal price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /Rare privately printed edition.In 1887 Portal was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the King of Abyssinia and the Italian Government, fo...
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Narrative of a journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3.
DUFTON, Henry.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Scarce. Dufton's work contains one of the first and best accounts of the Ethiopian ruler Emperor Tewodros, whom he met at Dabra Tabor. It also des...
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The autobiography of ...
WALDMEIR, Theophilius.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00| /An account of ten years life in Abyssinia; and sixteen years in Syria.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 339 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, numerous engra...
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The captive missionary:
STERN, Rev. Henry A.Original price £475.00 - Original price £475.00Original price £0.00£475.00£475.00 - £475.00Current price £475.00| /An account of the country and people of Abyssinia. Embracing a narrative of King Theodore's life, his captivity at Magdala, and the treatment of p...
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Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country
PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Rare. Plowden, appointed British Consul in 1848, served first at Masawa and later in the interior where he befriended Ras Ali and later Emperor Té...
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Sport in Abyssinia;
MAYO, Dermot R. W. Bourke, Earl of.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Scarce. Written by a British Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards who disembarked at Massawa in 1874 on a hunting trip in northern Ethiopia and left...
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A Banker in Abyssinia.
PRESS, Edouard(?)Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /With mention of Evelyn Waugh. An immensely readable and often humorous memoir by a British employee of the Bank of Abyssinia in 1930s Ethiopia. Wit...
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The source of the Blue Nile
HAYES, Arthur J.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /A record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara.First edition...
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The company of adventurers.
BOYES, John.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W.N. McMillan and C.W.l. Bulp...
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The company of adventurers.
BOYES, John.Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00| /Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W. N. McMillan and C. W. l. Bu...
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Autograph letter, signed.
BAKER, Samuel.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £1,750.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /The kernel of the nut. A very interesting letter from the great Nile explorer and adventurer, Samuel Baker in which he discusses the importance of ...
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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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