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The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893

Title
The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 / by J. Theodore Bent ; with a chapter by H.D. Müller On the inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum ; and an appendix On the morphological character of the Abyssinians by J.G. Garson.
Author
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897
Publication
London ; New York ; and Bombay : Longmans, Green and Co., 1896.

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Additional Authors
  • Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912
  • Garson, J. G. (John George)
  • Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.
  • Spottiswoode & Co., printer.
Description
xv, [1], 309, [1] pages, [10] leaves of plates (6 folded) : illustrations, facsimiles, maps; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  • Inscriptions > Ethiopia
  • Inscriptions, Sabaean
  • Inscriptions, Greek > Ethiopia
  • Anthropometry > Ethiopia
  • Ethiopia > Description and travel
  • Āksum (Ethiopia)
  • Yeha (Ethiopia)
Genre/Form
Bookplates (Provenance)
Note
  • With a half-title.
  • "Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., New Street Square, London."--foot of page 309.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available in digital form.
Reproduction (note)
  • Photocopy.
Source (note)
  • Arthur A. Schomburg;
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Call Number
Sc 913.39-B (Bent, J. Sacred city of the Ethiopians)
LCCN
17011485
OCLC
  • 8242131
  • NYPGR8242131-B
Author
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, author.
Title
The sacred city of the Ethiopians : being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 / by J. Theodore Bent ; with a chapter by H.D. Müller On the inscriptions from Yeha and Aksum ; and an appendix On the morphological character of the Abyssinians by J.G. Garson.
Publisher
London ; New York ; and Bombay : Longmans, Green and Co., 1896.
Edition
New edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats
Also available in digital form.
Reproduction
Copy in Sc 913.39-B (copy 1) Photocopy. Emerson, N.J. : Ocker & Trapp, Inc. for The New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2005.
Provenance
Copy in Sc Rare 913.39-B (copy 2) (accession no. B524134) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Local Note
Schomburg Center's researchers are restricted to the digital form or the Ocker & Trapp, Inc.'s photocopy in the JBH General Research & Reference Division.
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Full text available via HathiTrust (University of Michigan copy)
Added Author
Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912, contributor.
Garson, J. G. (John George), contributor.
Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.
Spottiswoode & Co., printer.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc 913.39-B (Bent, J. Sacred city of the Ethiopians)
Sc Rare 913.39-B (Bent, J. Sacred city of the Ethiopians) -- (Lapidus Cage)
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