Simen. Its Heights and Abysses. A Record of Travel and Sport in Abyssinia, with some Account of the Sacred City of Aksum and the Ruins of Gondar
MAYDON, Major Hubert Conway
NEAR FINE COPY OF MAYDON'S RAREST WORK
Published: HF & G Witherby, 1925
Stock code: 49070
Price: £520.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 22 plates on 11, 5 maps in the text and large folding panorama on japon; green cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, uncut, top and fore-edge lightly spotted else a near fine copy.
With publisher's catalogue leaf at end. Arguably Maydon's masterpiece and certainly his rarest work, combining detailed travelogue (starting in 1922), notes on field sports and mountain hunting (including Walia Ibex and Nyala), landscape and archaeology. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Czech 187.