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COMBES, [Edmond] [1812-1848] & Maurice TAMISIER [b. 1810].. Voyage En Abyssinie, Dans Le Pays Des Galla, De Choa Et D'Ifat; Précédé D'Une Excursion Dans L'Arabie Heureuse.
4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 367; 1 p.l., 362; 1 p.l., 379; 1 p.l., 383. large folding engraved map. A pretty set in contemporary blind-stamped chagrin, all edges gilt (light wear to extremities, some foxing throughout). Second Edition (first: 1838). Combes and Tamisier spent two years in Abyssinia and Yemen, from March 1835 to March 1837, visiting Axum, Adua, Galla, Tigré, Debra-Tabor, Tana, Gondar, Massawa, &c. Combes was a former vice-consul at Scala Nova in Asia Minor, and a future vice-consul at Rabat in Morocco. In 1846 he published an account of his 1841 travels in Egypt and Nubia. In addition to describing their journey, the travellers provide a history of the country and comment on local manners and customs, trade and commerce, government, &c. The last chapters are devoted to the errors made by previous Europeans who came to Abyssinia: Bruce, Valentia, and Salt. Gay 2616.
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