Ludolf, Hiob
A New History of Ethiopia
£819
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Second Edition. To which is added, a New and Exact Map ... a Preface ... the Life of Gregorius Abba ... and the Author's Opinion of some other Writers concerning Ethiopia. London: Samuel Smith, 1684. Folio (34.5 x 21cm), 20th-century panelled calf, engraved folding map, 9 plates (mainly zoological; all but one folding), bound without the letterpress genealogical table between pp. 192-3, moderate browning, marginal worming to initial [38] pp. (with very slight effect on map), small hole in botanical plate facing p. 48 and zoological plate facing p. 57 ('A Description of the Apes'), a few other marks [ESTC R7119];
Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768 [...] 1773. Edinburgh: by J. Ruthven for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790. First edition, 5 volumes, 4to (28 x 23cm), 19th-century half calf, 58 engraved plates including 4 plans, 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects, 2 folding maps (of 3: lacking 'Chart of Solomon's Voyage to Tarshish'), retaining half-titles to volumes 2-3 only, variable spotting and browning, repairs to volumes 1 and 4 title-pages and 'Cerastes' plate in volume 5, bookplates of William Hodgson Cadogan [ESTC T51608; Nissen ZBI 617]
Footnote
Note: Second edition in English of Ludolf's work, though described by ESTC as more accurately a reissue of the first edition in English of 1682, with a cancel title-page, added preface and map.