A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country...
1816 · Philadelphia
by SALT, Henry
Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1816. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With 1 folding map. Contemporary calf, worn, rebcked; interior lightly browned due to paper stock. Overall a very good copy. First American edition (first printed in London, 1814). A voyage to Abyssinia was produced after Salt's second trip to Ethiopia. This travelogue provides detailed descriptions of material culture and social customs of Ethiopia and surrounding territories. He even includes vocabulary lists of languages spoken along the African coast, spanning from Mozambique to Egypt. Undertaken on (truncated)