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Description : Africa.- Salt (Henry) A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of That Country ..., first edition, half-title, 29 engraved plates, 5 folding engraved maps, 1 hand-coloured and with short tear, engraved illustrations, occasional marginal staining, scattered spotting, one or two faint marginal pencil notes, previous owner's signature, contemporary half-calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip, a little rubbed, [Mendelssohn p.264, Shapero, Africana 322, Blackmer 1479], 4to, 1814. ⁂ 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 African dialects. (Blackmer)
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