Description

Publisher’s red cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Boards with border stamped in black and image of shackles stamped in gilt to front board. Light shelfwear to boards. Discrete professional restoration to spine. Foredge uncut. Old adhesive stain to first few pages. Foxing to first and last few pages, else only occasional foxing throughout. Illustrated with 8 full page plates.

A scarce Abyssinia travel narrative by Henry Blanc, who gives his first hand accounts of Ethiopia including its scenery, people and late Emperor Téwodros II (Theodore). The author was taken captive in Ethiopia for a time, and the shackles stamped to the front board of the book are an illustration of those used on him.