Author: BORELLI Jules :
Title: Éthiopie Méridionale. Journal de mon Voyage aux Pays Amhara, Oromo et Sidama. Septembre 1885 à Novembre 1888.
Description: Paris, Ancienne Maison Quantin, Librairies-Imprimeries Réunies, 1890, in-4°, 29 x 20,5 cm, (4) + 520 pp + (2), with frontispiece portrait, 13 plates, 7 double-page maps of which one coloured (complete according the lists of illustrations), with many text illustrations. Index. Modern imitation snake leather quarter binding with matching marbled boards, original wrappers preserved, (frontwrapper dustsoiled, some slight foxing at some pages, still a fine/good copy). Important early and well edited travel account to Ethiopia which contains also a concise dictionary to some of the languages spoken there. The author met Rimbaud on his travels there, he later became a rather successful painter and was befriended at some time with Paul Signac. .

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