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(Voyage & Exploration) - - HOSKINS, George Alexander - Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the Ancient Kingdom of Meroe. With a map, and ninety illustrations [...]. LONDON, LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN (PRINTED BY A. SPOTTISWOODE), In-4° : xix-[1]-367 pp.; 55 pl. (copy soiled, yellowed on the edges, some pp. and pl. partly detached, 2 pl. totally unbound, foxing on some pp., numerous on the map, one fold reinforced on the map, rare marginal tears, a few stains or marginal dampstains). Publisher's binding : dark green cloth, upper board with gilt illustrations, flat spine with gilt title and illustration (worn out, spine detached, joints partly split, small lacks, three corners strongly dulled, upper flyleaf partly detached).


FIRST EDITION of this travel made in 1833 by the author with the artist Luchese Bandoni in Nubia and Northern Sudan, in "the land whence the arts and learning of Egypt, and ultimately of Greece and Rome, derived their origin. In this remarkable country we behold the earliest efforts of human science and ingenuity" (cfr p. v). Illustrated by Charles Joseph Hullmandel after Hoskins and Bandoni with numerous illustrations in the text and with 56 engravings on 55 leaves (8 double-pages) : 1 folding map and 55 lithographies of which 4 chromolithos and 2 hand-coloured. Hoskins (1802-1863) was one of the first to venture above the second cataract and the first European to describe and illustrate the antiquities of Meroe. # Blackmer 695. Provenance : Alexandre Varille (1909-1951), egyptologist (ex-libris). -- Édition originale de ce récit de voyage illustré d'1 carte dépl. et 55 lithographies (2 rehaussées et 4 en couleurs). Pleine toile verte d'éd. (ex. défraîchi, qqs. pp. et pl. part. déreliées, deux totalement, nombreuses rouss. sur la carte, rel. usée). Top J'enchéris