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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 / by G.A. Hoskins... ; with a map, and ninety illustrations ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethiopia--Description and travel.
- Ethiopia.
- Nubia--Description and travel.
- Nubia.
- Meroë.
- Physical Description:
- xix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 367 pages, 1 unnumbered page 54 unnumbered leaves of plates (one folded) : illustrations, map, plans ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835.
- Notes:
- Some plates are double and some printed on both sides.
- The chromolithographs present are probably the earliest in an English printed book.--cf. Gascoigne.
- Cited in:
- Gascoigne, B. "Earliest English chromolithographs." J̲o̲u̲r̲n̲a̲l̲ o̲f̲ t̲h̲e̲ P̲r̲i̲n̲t̲i̲n̲g̲ H̲i̲s̲t̲o̲r̲i̲c̲a̲l̲ S̲o̲c̲i̲e̲t̲y̲ (1982/83), p. [62]-67
- OCLC:
- 3179806
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