Sir Frederick Treves was the prominent Victorian surgeon famous for treating Joseph Merrick sometimes known 'The Elephant Man'. He spent much time...

'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa... there is also a feverish encou...

Richardson was travelling physician to the Earl of Belmore, whose party spent two years in the Mediterranean, mainly in Egypt, Palestine and Syria...

Rare. The first appearance in book form of any account of Livingstone's travels in Africa (the preface is dated January, 1857, and his Missionary ...

Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), an eminent physician was the first to identify the type of lymphoma now known as Hodgkins disease. He travelled t...

Scarce, with only a handful of copies appearing at auction. George Philips (?1599-1696), was employed as secretary to George O'Brien, Second Earl ...

'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa ... there is also a feverish enco...

Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., folding...

The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...

An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the Bank of Abyssinia and his travel companion, the British army o...

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...

On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...

Rare privately printed edition.In 1887 Portal was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the King of Abyssinia and the Italian Government, fo...

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...

An account of ten years life in Abyssinia; and sixteen years in Syria.First edition. 8vo, xiv, 339 pp., wood engraved frontispiece, numerous engra...

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...

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...