Lot 689
  • 689

Johnston, Charles

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Johnston, Charles
  • Travels in Southern Abyssinia, through the Country of Adal to the Kingdom of Shoa. London: J. Madden and Co., 1844
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (220 x 137mm.), (vol.1) xvi, 492pp.; (vol.2) viii, 448pp., 8pp. adverts, engraved folding map, 2 lithographed plates, original blindstamped dark green ribbed silk, yellow endpapers, slipcase

Provenance

Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury, armorial stamp; Humphrey Winterton, book label, sale in these rooms, 28-29 May 2003, lot 423

Condition

A fine copy
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