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Parkyns, Mansfield

LIFE IN ABYSSINIA [TWO VOLUME SET] Being Notes Collected During Three Years' Residence and Travels in That Country

D. Appleton and Company, 1854

425,00 €

Complete Traveller

(Westport, Estados Unidos)

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Año de publicación
1854
Lugar de impresión
New York
Autor
Parkyns, Mansfield
Editores
D. Appleton and Company
Materia
Africa, East
Encuadernación
Tapa dura

Descripción

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light chipping to bottom spines. Former owner's name on title pages. Vol. 1: First few pages with slight discoloration to one corner. A bit of browning to frontispiece and title page initiated by the tissue guard. Very light foxing to last few pages. Vol. 2: Moderate foxing to first few pages and light foxing to last few pages. Front hinge has a bit of play. Else a very handsome copy. ; Mid-19th century adventures in Abyssinia, known today as Ethiopia. "Life in Abyssinia is one of the most literary and idiosyncratic of the nineteenth-century travel narratives of Africa. " Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Vol. 59, No. 2, Social Stratification in Swahili Society (1989) , pp. 260-262 (3 pages). Dark green boards with blindstamped pattern. Gilt spine lettering and gilt pictorial design of an indigenous soldier on spine. 12 b&w illustrations. Rare, especially in this condition. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 [10],355 [4] pages

Condizioni: very good+
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