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HENRY SALT (1780-1827)
A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which is included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes. London: W. Bulmer & Co. for F.C. & J. Rivington, 1814. 4° (303 x 230mm). Half-title. Loosely-inserted folding hand-coloured engraved map backed onto linen and held in place by a green silk ribbon, 6 engraved charts (4 loosely-inserted, backed onto linen and each held in place by a green silk ribbon [3 of these folding, 1 double-page]), 27 engraved plates by C. Heath after Salt, 1 engraved headpiece and 1 tailpiece. (Two of the silk restraining ribbons broken.) Contemporary russia, covers wiith decorative border in blind including a large neo-classical roll with anthemion motif. spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat decoration in blind, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (upper joint split).
'FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'VERY INTERESTING WORK' (Blackmer). 'Salt, who had been trained as a painter, first visited Egypt when he toured India and North Africa with Viscount Valentia... He returned to Africa in 1809 on a government mission to establish contact with the King of Abyssinia which occupied him for two years. This work describes those travels and the appendix contains vocabularies of various African dialects' (Blackmer). The binder has come up with an ingenious solution to the problem of reading the text whilst examining the larger folding map and charts: each has been removed from the binding, backed onto linen and folded; a green silk ribbon has then been bound in at the correct position and each folded plate has then been loosely secured in place by the ribbon. The list of plates calls for two separate charts of Howakil Bay and Annesley Bay, however there is only one plate on which these two charts are engraved. In the present copy, the chart which should be bound to face p.475 has been misbound opposite p.453. Brunet V,96; Blackmer 1479; Hilmy II,208.
A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which is included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes. London: W. Bulmer & Co. for F.C. & J. Rivington, 1814. 4° (303 x 230mm). Half-title. Loosely-inserted folding hand-coloured engraved map backed onto linen and held in place by a green silk ribbon, 6 engraved charts (4 loosely-inserted, backed onto linen and each held in place by a green silk ribbon [3 of these folding, 1 double-page]), 27 engraved plates by C. Heath after Salt, 1 engraved headpiece and 1 tailpiece. (Two of the silk restraining ribbons broken.) Contemporary russia, covers wiith decorative border in blind including a large neo-classical roll with anthemion motif. spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment, the others with elaborate repeat decoration in blind, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (upper joint split).
'FIRST EDITION OF THIS 'VERY INTERESTING WORK' (Blackmer). 'Salt, who had been trained as a painter, first visited Egypt when he toured India and North Africa with Viscount Valentia... He returned to Africa in 1809 on a government mission to establish contact with the King of Abyssinia which occupied him for two years. This work describes those travels and the appendix contains vocabularies of various African dialects' (Blackmer). The binder has come up with an ingenious solution to the problem of reading the text whilst examining the larger folding map and charts: each has been removed from the binding, backed onto linen and folded; a green silk ribbon has then been bound in at the correct position and each folded plate has then been loosely secured in place by the ribbon. The list of plates calls for two separate charts of Howakil Bay and Annesley Bay, however there is only one plate on which these two charts are engraved. In the present copy, the chart which should be bound to face p.475 has been misbound opposite p.453. Brunet V,96; Blackmer 1479; Hilmy II,208.
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