Published by H.M.S.O, 1909
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
US$ 27.67
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Boards marked and worn with chipped edges, page dges tanned, foldng sections intact.
Published by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, Khartoum, 1940
Seller: Librairie Sheehy (Theologia Books), La Charite sur Loire, France
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good copy. 228pp, 2 foldout charts. First published in 1909 and revised in 1940. Book.
Condition: New.
Published by London: HMSO, 1909
First Edition
US$ 41.50
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Add to basket1st edition. "The object of the book is to enable an officer on a visit to the country to understand, and make himself understood by, all classes of Abyssinians, and for that reason only words in common use have been employed.Amharic is a language of Semitic origin and is akin to the Bega language of the Hadendoa. Although it has no present connection with Arabic, it has, nevertheless, some of the Semitic features of that language." 16cms x 10.5cms. Pp.213, 3 cloth-backed folding tables with minor creased edges. Black cloth spine over dark green/blue boards which have wear to fore-edges. Scarce. G+.