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WINSTANLEY, William.

A Visit to Abyssinia.

A Visit to Abyssinia.

An Account of Travel in Modern Ethiopia.

Stock Code 101539

London, Hurst and Blackett, 1881

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The author of this work was a British officer of the Queen's Own Hussars who entered Ethiopia from the west around 1880. Travelling from the frontier market town of Galabat to Lake Tana he visited Dabra Tabor before leaving by the same route. His reminiscences contain brief passages on Emperor Yohannes IV and several members of his court as well as some information on churches, markets, and social customs.

First edition; 2 volumes in 1, 8vo (19 x 13 cm); engraved frontispiece, a little thumbing to first few pages; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth, all edges gilt, spine sunned, professional restoration to spine, otherwise a very good copy; xi, 310; viii, 307, [v] pp.

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