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 Lingdon of Meroe

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1835. hardcover. Half polished calf with spine gilt extra, marble boards, endpapers and edges 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. 54 of the illustrations are lithograph plates of which two are handcoloured and four are chromolitho (the earliest in any British Book). The fold-out map is foxed but the plates are in fine condition. George Alexander Hoskins was born in 1802. His visitt to Egypt and Nubia occurred in 1832-33. Like many of his co-travellers, he was not an Egyptologist but an educated young man with financial resources. Like many other travellers at the time, he employed an artist, Luchese Bandoni. He made a valuable contribution by publishing his travels which many did not. In addition to the straightforward narrative of the journey, Hoskins collected all the relevant available material and wrote a 'hisotyr' of Nubia and Southern Sudan. He followed the Greek and Roman authors and dated many of the monuments -- such as the pyramid cemeteries -- earlier than those in Egypt.Although it was the first history of the Nubia-Kushite Kingdom and Meroe in English, it belonged to an older tradition that gave primacy to the Classical tradition while trying to integrate some of the recent developments. (Morkot). An exceptional copy of an exceptional book. . . . . N° de ref. del artículo KTK0099913

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