Lot 993
  • 993

Parkyns, Mansfield

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Life in Abyssinia: being Notes collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country. London: John Murray, 1853
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 139mm.), (vol.1) xvi, 426pp.; (vol.2) iv, 432pp., 32pp. adverts, folding map, 18 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, original decorated blue cloth, gilt, light green endpapers, slipcase

Provenance

Hesketh family, Easton Neston, various armorial bookplates and labels (sale in these rooms, 15 December 1999, lot 503)

Literature

Czech (Africa) p.125