Abyssinia rare books

First edition, 3 volumes, 4to (31.5 x 25.5 cm.), large paper copy, half-titles, 3 engraved vignettes, 69 engraved plates and maps, 11 double-page or folding, plate list at beginning of volume 1, advertisement leaf at end of volume 3, modern half calf gilt, a fine clean set.

First edition, later issue, 8vo, xxxiii, 532, 12(ads)pp., frontispiece, 91 illustrations, large coloured folding map (loose), later red cloth gilt, to style, with distinctive Roland Ward endpapers and binders ticket Jarvis, Thanet to rear pastedown, a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo., number 102 [sic] of 100 copies, xii, 314 pp., double-page map, original green cloth gilt, an excellent copy.

First edition. Landscape folio (80 x 57 cm), pictorial aquatint title, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates, engraved by D. Havell after Henry Salt, all without the slightest foxing, early watermarks all pre-publication, on Whatman paper ranging from 1794 to 1806. Originally bound in portrait format now re- arranged in landscape, rebacked and edged in leather retaining the original marbled boards, with a new morocco label.

First edition. 5 volumes, 4to., engraved title vignettes, three large folding maps, 55 engraved plates including 53 natural history studies, four leaves of Ethiopian script,contemporary mottled calf, gilt corners and edges, sometime rebacked, red and brown morocco labels, endpapers spotted, old light waterstain to lower fore-corner volume V, a good set.

Large 4to. (33 x 26 cm). 511pp, profusely illustrated in colour, brown cloth gilt; pictorial dust-jacket. New.

First edition. 8vo, xii, 488 pp., folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, 12 plates including 6 coloured lithographs bird plates by Keulemans (a little spotted), folding coloured map, original green cloth gilt, inner hinges strengthened, a very good copy.

First edition in French, 4to., [iv], xliv, 256, [xxx], 38pp., James Bruce of Kinnaird's copy with a few pencil annotations, contemporary tree calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, an excellent copy.