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Description : Africa.- Ethiopia.- Salt (Henry) A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of That Country ..., first edition, engraved frontispiece and 28 plates, 5 folding maps, of which 1 hand-coloured, all bound at the beginning, page numbers in pencil to margins, illustrations, scattered faint spotting, bookplates, contemporary boards, rebacked with crushed morocco, retaining original spine label, a little rubbed, bumping to corners, [Mendelssohn p.264, Shapero, Africana 322, Blackmer 1479], 4to, 1814. ⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of Sir Gore Ouseley, a British entrepreneur, linguist and diplomat. He served the British Government in India, and served as a diplomat in Persia. He eventually returned to England via Russia. A very interesting work by Salt, who later became associated with Egyptology as the employer of Belzoni, friend of Burckhardt, and the owner of three important collections of Egyptian antiquities ... He returned to Africa in 1809 on a government mission to establish contact with the King of Abyssinia which occupied him for two years. This work described these travels and the appendix contains vocabularies of various Africa dialects. (Blackmer).
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