WADDINGTON, George and the Rev. Barnard Hanbury.
Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia.
London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street , 1822.
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First edition of George Waddington's Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia
First edition of Waddington’s important early nineteenth-century travel narrative, documenting his expedition into Upper Egypt and Nubia. Quarto, bound in full calf, with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt stamping and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling, gilt sphinx cornerpieces and central pyramid and camel vignettes to the front and rear panels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers, illustrated with 16 lithograph plates from drawings by the author including frontispiece and 1 folding plate, 2 folding engraved maps. Abbey, Travel 289; Gay 2693; Hilmy II, 134; Lowndes 2802. In very good condition, inscription to the title page, rebacked.
An important early nineteenth-century travel narrative, George Waddington’s Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia (London: John Murray, 1822) documented his expedition, undertaken with the Reverend Barnard Hanbury, into Upper Egypt and Nubia. Written in the aftermath of the Napoleonic campaigns, the work reflected the era’s expanding European fascination with the ancient civilizations of the Nile Valley and the developing field of Egyptology. Waddington employed a measured, empirical style, recording inscriptions, monuments, and local customs with scholarly precision that distinguished his account from the more romanticized travel writing of his contemporaries. His observations provided valuable information on regions that were, at the time, only partially explored by Europeans, thereby contributing to the advancement of geographical and archaeological knowledge in northeastern Africa. The Journal ultimately exemplified both the intellectual curiosity and the colonial perspectives that shaped early nineteenth-century British engagement with the cultures and antiquities of the region.
Journal of a Visit to Some Parts of Ethiopia.
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