![[Item #60703] The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, Being A Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893. ETHIOPIA, J. Theodore BENT.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/60703.jpg?auto=webp&v=1675127313)
The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, Being A Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. Second Edition. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt; black coated endpapers; [xvi],309,[1],32pp; 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear; folding map printed in color, 4 folding plates, frontispiece and 4 full-page illustrations, numerous in-text illustrations. Ownership stamp of John A. Cockburn to f.f.e.p. verso. A tight, straight volume, lightly rubbed, spine faded with minor stains, edges bumped, browning to endleaves, else internally clean: Very Good.
Archaeological investigation of the ruins at Axum, in Ethiopia. Bent had previously conducted amateur research at Mashonaland in Zimbabwe, where he had damaged artefacts through ignorance and drawn incorrect, racist conclusions. However, his work in Ethiopia "added materially" to Western "knowledge of Ethiopian antiquities" (ODNB).
Price: $125.00
