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  • British East Africa

    McDERMOTT, P.L.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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].
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    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.
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    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.
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    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, Gerald
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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(?)
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    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.
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    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.
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    '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.
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    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.
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    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, George
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    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.
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    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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