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This posthumous account is valuable for its information on the various social classes, and the author's observations on such sports as riding and fishing.
This posthumous account is valuable for its information on the various social classes, and the author's observations on such sports as riding and fishing.
This posthumous account is valuable for its information on the various social classes, and the author's observations on such sports as riding and fishing.

PLOWDEN, Walter Chichele.

Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country with an account of the mission to Ras Ali in 1848.

London, Longmans, 1868.

£2,000.00
£2,000.00

Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country

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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 Téwodros. Plowden died of injuries received in a conflict and was buried at Gondar, with the Emperor avenging his death. This posthumous account is valuable for its information on the various social classes, and the author's observations on such sports as riding and fishing.

First edition; 8vo; folding map, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked preserving spine, a very good copy; xv, 485 pp.

Pankhurst 32.

Stock code 101325

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This posthumous account is valuable for its information on the various social classes, and the author's observations on such sports as riding and fishing.

Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla country

£2,000.00
£2,000.00

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