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1901 Abyssinia: Through the Lion-Land
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Description
First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce
A fascinating and detailed travel memoir and guidebook about Abyssinia, or modern day Ethiopia, including chapters on the history of the country, cultural ways of life of its people, British Somaliland, Menelik, religious beliefs, political state, and more.
Written by English journalist and newspaper owner, Herbert Vivian, a close personal friend of notables like Lord Randolph Churchill, Charles Russell, Leopold Masxe, and more.
The first edition of this work.
Illustrated with two folding maps, sixteen full page plates, and sixty-three in-text illustrations. Collated and complete.
A scarce to find work.
Containing the bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser to the front pastedown.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, some wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Some darkening to the spine and extremities and light marks to the boards. Containing the bookplate of Clinton E. Geiser to the front pastedown. Internally, hinges lightly strained, remaining binding is generally firm. Some light spotting to the pastedowns and front free-endpapers, and the odd spot throughout, otherwise pages are generally clean.
Good
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