THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA; and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs.

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FIRST EDITION, 8vo pp xxii, (i) list of illustrations, (i) blank, 596, 2 maps (1 folding), portrait frontispiece, 23 engraved plates, 1 map repaired, recent blue half morocco, light foxing to preliminaries. A record of the author's preliminary journey, in the course of which he mastered Arabic and acquired the use of astronomical instruments. Murchison praised the discovery of the fact that Nile sediments were due to Abyssinian tributaries. N° de ref. del artículo 8543

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