Lot 1
Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Collection of travel narratives, 19th & early 20th century
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
De Cosson, E.A. The Cradle of the Blue Nile. London: John Murray, 1877. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial design on upper boards (recased, spines faded with traces of library shelfmark label), 8 plates and folding map (slight tear), library stamp on title pages of Free Public Library, New Haven, Connecticut;
Plowden, Walter Chichele. Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country: with an Account of a Mission to Ras Ali in 1848. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. First edition, 8vo, later half calf with gilt spine (corners scuffed), 2 folding maps, with gilt stamp on spine of the library of the Canadian Parliament;
Darley, Henry. Slaves and Ivory. London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1926. First edition, 8vo, original green publisher's cloth gilt with vignette on spine, 6 plates, 2 maps (1 folding);
Parkyns, Mansfield. Life in Abyssinia: being Notes Collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 8vo, 19th-century half calf (faded and scuffed), plates, folding map (torn), illustrations, lacking one plate in volume 1, one plate from volume 1 misbound as frontispiece to volume 2, armorial bookplates of John Waldie, Hendersyde, and embossed library stamp on front free endpapers of Kirklands, Dunbar, N.B.;
Stigand, C.H. To Abyssinia through an Unknown Land. London: Seeley & Co. Limited, 1910. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's orange/red cloth gilt, 34 plates (including frontispiece), 2 maps (1 folding coloured), bookseller's advertisements;
Stern, Henry A. Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia. London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1862. First edition, 8vo, modern half blue morocco, 8 lithographed plates tinted, illustrations, some occasional staining. At the request of the London Jews' Society, Stern travelled to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to conduct a tour of Jewish villages, resulting in this book;
General Staff Intelligence Khartoum. A Handbook of Ethiopia (Provisional Edition). [Cairo]: Printed by Whitehead Morris Egypt Limited, 1941. First edition, 8vo, original publisher's grey cloth (lightly stained), folding map (torn and detached from volume). Guidebook to Ethiopia produced by the British War Office;
and 8 others (17)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman