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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, Esq.
Gale Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864--Travel--Africa.
- Hoskins, G. A.
- Ethiopia--Description and travel.
- Ethiopia.
- Nubia--Description and travel.
- Nubia.
- Meroe (Extinct city)--Description and travel.
- Meroe (Extinct city).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 367, pages, 54 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded)) : illustrations, folded map, portraits (some color), plans.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "With a map, and ninety illustrations of the temples, pyramids, etc. of Meroe, Gibel-el-Birkel, Solib, etc. from drawings finished on the spot, by the author, and an artist whom he employed."
- Plates lithographed by [R.]J. Hamerton, C.[J.] Hullmandel, W.P. Sherlock, and W.[L.] Walton, after drawings by the author and by L. Bandoni; map by John Arrowsmith; wood-engravings by [A.]R. Branston.
- Some plates are double and some are printed on both sides; some plates are hand-colored; the chromolithographs present are probably the earliest in an English printed book.--Cf. Gascoigne.
- Includes errata (page [1] at beginning).
- "London: Printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square."--Title page verso.
- Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
- OCLC:
- 904538025
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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