Lot 557
  • 557

Graham, Douglas Cuninghame

Estimate
400 - 600 GBP
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Description

  • Glimpses of Abyssinia: or, Extracts from Letters written while on a mission from the Government of India to the King of Abyssinia in the years 1841, 1842, and 1843... Edited by his sister, Anna, Lady Erskine. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer and Rugby: W. Billington, 1867
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (182 x 120mm.), viii, 72pp., original green decorated cloth gilt, binding very slightly worn

Contains notes about many different aspects of Abyssinia, including the slave trade, the Abyssinian Church and the game to be found there.

Provenance

Wilfred Thesiger, explorer, bookplate

Condition

A good copy
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