Ethiopia
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The Travels Of Ibn Battuta Ad 1325-1354 Plus Index, Volumes 4 and 5
by A D H; Gibb, H a R and Beckingham, C F Bivar
Ethiopia Books & Ephemera
The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo
by Lobo, Jeronimo (1592?-1678); edited by M G da Costa
xxiv+417 pages with 9 illustrations, including frontispiece, 4 maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt vignette of the ship Victoria to front cover in original jacket. Translated by Donald M Lockhart, Introduction by C F Beckingham. Second Series, volume 162. First edition.Jeronimo Lobo was the last survivor of the small band of Jesuit Father who tried, with a measure of success, to reconcile Ethiopia to the...
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£20.23
![Aigyptos, la Terre du Faucon. Catalogue 61 -- 1924-1925. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/734/865/1268865734.0.b.jpg)
Aigyptos, la Terre du Faucon. Catalogue 61 -- 1924-1925. [cover title]
by Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner
Paris, 1923. Paperback. Good. index, 321p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. Text browned. Minor cover soil. Front cover overprinted in red: Nota bene: Ce catalogue ayant ete redige en 1923, les prix qui sont annonces sont annules, ils gardent cependant la plus grands partie, une valeur indicative. French text. 5287 items in this extensive catalog.
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£32.37
Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country
by Parkyns, Mansfield
London: Frank Cass, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, illustrations (in text), folding map, xxviii, 446p. Green cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1868 Second Edition.
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£40.46
Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country
by Parkyns, Mansfield
London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 2 volumes 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 425, [1]; iv, 432; folding map with route outlined in red, 18 plates plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; recent half maroon morocco, gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; old institutional rubberstamp in bottom margin of title pages, both frontispieces a bit dampstained, but overall a fine-looking copy.
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£418.81
Into the Hidden Land
by Shaw, Len
London: Travel Book Club. 1970. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. 176 pages. Travels in Africa. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.
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£10.57
Eine deutsche Gesandtschaft in Abessinien
by Rosen, Felix
Leipzig: Veit, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. photos (most in text), map (on folding sheet), xii, 496p. 24cm. Light spotting on cover cloth. Covers slightly sprung at ends. No Jacket. German text.
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£101.16
Tribal photographs; 12 original prints
by Watson, John
Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, 2003. Photograph. Twelve original photographs, 11x14 inches between separted title-pages, each photograh is separated by a wax sheet with the photograph's title, location, and tribe printed on the bottom, in very good condition in like cardboard portfoilio and slightly concaved pictorial box. Number 97/100, signed by the photographer in pencil.
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£80.93
Une Visite a l'Empereur Menelick: Notes et Impressions de Route
by Orleans, Henri d', Prince, 1867-1901
Paris: Librairie Dentu, 1898. Paperback. Fair (because of repairs). illustrations, 264p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. Backstrip recently reglued and the missing original backstrip had been replaced with plain white paper. Original front and back covers -- some chipping and staining along edges, and missing a couple of the folded-over flaps -- have been preserved. Internally sound and clean. French text.
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£40.46
Zara Yacob; A seventeenth century rationalist: philosopher of the rationality of the human heart
by Kiros, Teodros
Asmara, Eritrea [and] Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc, 2005. Paperback. 156p., pictorial wrappers, 4.5x8 inches; in very good condition.
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£32.37
Beyond Conflict in the Horn; Prospects for Peace, Recovery and Development in Ethiopia, Somalia and the Sudan
by Doornbos, Martin, Lionel Cliffe, Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, John Markakis
Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 1992. Paperback. viii, 243p., wraps; ownership signature on half-title page, otherwise very good.
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£9.71
The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543. As Narrated by Castanhoso, with some Contemporary Letters, the Short Account of Bermudez, and Certain Extracts from Correa
by Castanhoso, Miguel de. R.S. Whiteway, translator/editor
Millwood NY / London: Kraus Reprint / The Hakluyt Society, 1967. Hardcover. cxxxii, 296p., illustrated with a frontispiece and a large folded map made for The Society. Hardbound in medium-blue cloth boards gilt, styled after the Hakluyt original. Casebinding and textblock are perfectly sound and square, cleanly and unmarked, but the map is slightly misfolded now (and perhaps was not adequately thought out by Kraus binder). Nice map, though. Laid in is a twelve-page xerox with four pages done in bright...
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£48.56
Ufahamu; volume X, numbers 1/2
Los Angeles: African Activist Association UCLA, 1980. 200p., double issue of the paperback journal, very good. Articles on strategy for the anti-apartheid movement, class conflict in Ethiopia, the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, and more.
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£20.23
From Falasha to Freedom: an Ethiopian Jew's Journey to Jerusalem
by Yilma, Shmuel
Jerusalem: Gefen, 1996. 110p., paperback, very good.
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£9.71
The Future of Religious Studies in Ethiopia and Eritrea
by Mellaku, Hailegebriel, editor
[Addis Ababa], 1995. Paperback. Very Good. ix, 348p. plus (6)p. photos. 24cm. Wrapper has some purpling (probably color bleed from the illustration on the front cover). Ethiopian Review of Cultures. Special Issue, Vols. IV-V (1994-1995). Proceedings at a Symposium held in Addis Ababa at the Capuchin Franciscan Institute of Philosophy and Theology, February 14-19, 1994.
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£52.60
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Eritrea: a victim of war and drought [handbill]
by Eritrean Relief Committee
Oakland: ERC, [198-]. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed on both sides, very good. Overview of humanitarian issues and solicitation of donations, from perspective sympathetic to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.
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£12.14
Nubia and Abyssinia
by ARROWSMITH, John
London: J. Arrowsmith, 1842. Map. Engraving with original hand-coloring. Image measures 20.5 x 23.25".<br/><br/> This lovely map of Nubia and Abyssinia shows the upper Nile, Ethiopia, Sudan and the Yemen. Cities and towns are labeled, particularly as they occur along the region's rivers. Exploration and caravan routes are also included, attesting to the area's importance to trade in the mid-19th century. Annotations are scattered throughout the map and provide insight into...
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Appeal
by Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Rome: EPLF, 1984. 3p., 8.5x11 inch sheets stapled togeher at corner, minor handling. An appeal for international support and an end to Soviet backing of Ethiopia.
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Ethiopie Meridionale: Journal de Mon Voyage aux Pays Amhara, Oromo et Sidama Septembre 1885 a Novembre 1888
by Borelli, Jules
Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies, 1890. Hardcover. Good. frontis (portrait of the author), illustrations In text, 13 full-page hyposometric plates not included in pagination, 7 double-page maps (1 in color), index, 520p. plus (1) p. Table de Matieres. Contemporary marbled boards backed in black cloth, 31 cm. French text. Evidence of a now missing title label and another smaller label on backstrip. Two small ownership labels (one on top of the other) in upper corner of...
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£222.56
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ERC newsletter [two issues]
by Eritrean Relief Committee
New York: ERC, 1985. Two issues of the newsletter, 8p. each, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Numbers present are vol. 2 no. 2 and vol. 3 no. 1. Addresses humanitarian issues, from perspective sympathetic to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.
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£20.23
An Interesting Narrative of the Travels of James Bruce, Esq., into Abyssinia, to Discover the Source of the Nile. Abridged from the Original Work
by Bruce, James, 1730-1794
London: H. D. Symonds, 1800. 4th ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis (portrait), 5 plates, xi, 372p. Contemporary leather, recently rebacked in similarly colored leather. 18cm. Cover edges rather worn; cover darkened around edges. This popular abridgement was edited by Samuel Shaw.
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£141.63
The Ethiopian revolution
by Harsch, Ernest
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1978. 38p., staplebound pamphlet, sunned along stapled edge else very good condition. Trotskyist perspective.
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£12.14
Nubie
by MANESSON-MALLET, Allain
Paris: Denys Thierry, 1683. unbound. Miniature map. Uncolored copper plate engraving. Image measures 5 3/4" x 4". Sheet measures 8 1/4" x 5 1/2".<br/> <br/> This miniature map of northern Ethiopia published in 1683 is from the original French edition of Manesson-Mallet's "Description de L'Univers." The map shows the part of the Abyssinian Empire known as Nubia, which encompassed the region west of the Red Sea around the Nubia and Nile Rivers, below the...
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Rastafari Kunst aus Jamaika
by Bender, Wolfgang; Mitherausgeber
Berlin: printed by CON Literaturvertreib GmBH for Haus Kulturen der Welt, 1992. 144p., numerous vignette artists' portraits and site photography, coated paperstock thoughout with exhibit-quality reproductions of artwork (mostly in color). First edition 10.5x8 inch decorated cardstock wraps, mild edgewear to cover with a small price sticker. A very good copy. Find repros of paintings on various surfaces; murals; mosaics; sculptured panels; a woven architectural dwelling and interiors (by Bongo Sylly).
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£28.33
![[Andand yaltyopya sa'aliwoc, acer yaheywat tarik] = Short Biographies of Some Ethiopian Artists](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/496/735/288735496.0.b.jpg)
[Andand yaltyopya sa'aliwoc, acer yaheywat tarik] = Short Biographies of Some Ethiopian Artists
by Tadesse, Taye
Addis Ababa: Kuraz Publishing Agency, 1991. Revised edition. Paperback. Good. numerous black & white illustrations, 250p. Oblong (30 x 21cm.). Some general scuffing and wear. Title and text in Amharic and English. Consists of two parts: the first part (pages 1-64) was first published in 1984 and apparently revised for this edition; the second part (pages 65-250) was first published as part of this 1991 edition.
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£202.33
Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During Three Years Residence and Travels in That Country, Vol. II
by Parkyns, Mansfield
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. D. Appleton and Company,1854. VOLUME II ONLY. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Deep green elaborately embossed boards, gilt title and design on spine a bit dulled. Cover has moderate shelfwear, corners and spine ends rubbed through. Overall minor scuffing. Hinges partially cracked. Writing on front pastedown and free endpaper. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Occasional light foxing throughout, heavier on first few and last few pages....
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