A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, Executed in the Years 1809 and 1810

by Henry Salt

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. With 28 engraved plates on 27 leaves, 7 engraved maps and charts on 6 sheets including 4 folding and 1 hand-colored and 2 vignettes. xi, 5 , 506, lxxv pp. 4to. Contemporary brown russia, neatly rebacked. Fine copy. Blackmer 1479; Czech, African p. 141; Fumagalli 139; Gay 2683. Item #314823 A fine copy of this important work by Salt on his two years journey to Abyssinia. On 2 March 1809 Salt

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