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Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa. Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer'.
Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa. Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer'.
Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa. Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer'.
Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa. Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer'.

JOHNSTON, Charles.

Travels in southern Abyssinia, through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa.

London, J. Madden and Co., 1844.

$2,534.00
$2,534.00

Travels in southern Abyssinia,

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Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa.

Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer, his two volume travels, which include descriptions of the capital, Ankobar, and the market town of Aleyu Amba, are full of insights into traditional Ethiopian society' (Pankhurst).

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; xvi, 492; viii, 447pp., lithographed frontispieces in both volumes, large folding map in vol. i; finely bound as an Eton College leaving present in contemporary polished calf gilt, covers ruled in gilt, spines richly gilt in compartments, morocco lettering pieces, a very good set.

Gay 2616; Pankhurst, 30.

Stock code 106404

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Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa. Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer'.

Travels in southern Abyssinia,

$2,534.00
$2,534.00

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The Deluxe issue of the first edition, with the plates hand-coloured, of The Unknown Horn of Africa by Frank Linsly James.
The Deluxe issue of the first edition, with the plates hand-coloured, of The Unknown Horn of Africa by Frank Linsly James.

JAMES, F[rank] L[insly].
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A first edition of The River War by Winston Churchill.
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CHURCHILL, Winston.
The River War. 1899.
$5,136.00

First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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GARSTIN, Sir William.
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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. 1863.
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First edition of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone, with the rare coloured frontispiece by West.
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; 1857.
$1,712.00

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