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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Reference Library
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Bruce, James, 1730–1794
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Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
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Mountnorris, George Annesley, Earl of, 1769–1844
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Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802–1878
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Bredin, Miles
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Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793–1875
1
Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864
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Johnston, Charles, 1810–1872
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Lefebvre, Théophile, 1811–1860
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Reid, J. M. (James Macarthur), 1901–1970
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Simpson, William, 1823–1899
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2002
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
13
Accessible by appointment in the Reference Library
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Under Certain Circumstances
16
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16
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Books
15
Archives & Manuscripts
1
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Period
19th century
11
18th century
3
21st century
2
20th century
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Work Type
lithograph
5
hand coloring
3
chromolithograph
2
etching
2
wood engraving
2
correspondence
1
diarie
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diplomat
1
drawings (visual works)
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engraving
1
map
1
notebook
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Ethiopia -- Description and travel.
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Bruce, James, 1730–1794.
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Egypt -- Description and travel.
4
Nile River.
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Ethiopia -- History.
3
Natural history -- Ethiopia.
3
India -- Description and travel.
2
Red Sea.
2
Spottiswoode, A. -- Printer.
2
Voyages and travels.
2
Abyssinian Expedition (1867–1868) -- Personal narratives, British.
1
Africa -- Discovery and exploration.
1
Africa, North -- Antiquities.
1
Africa, North -- Description and travel.
1
Africa, North -- History -- 1517–1882.
1
Antiquities.
1
Ballantyne, James -- Printer.
1
Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771.
1
Beckford, William, 1760–1844 -- Provenance.
1
Berry and Rogers -- Publisher.
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Ethiopia
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Egypt
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Nile River
4
Africa, North
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India
2
Red Sea
2
Shewa Kifle Hāger (Ethiopia)
2
Sri Lanka
2
Africa
1
Blue Nile River Valley (Ethiopia and Sudan)
1
Danakil (Region)
1
Meroe (Extinct city)
1
Nubia
1
Associated People
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
4
Balugani, Luigi Antonio Melchiorre, 1737–1771
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Simpson, William, 1823–1899
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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English
15
French
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Johnston, Charles, 1810–1872
Travels in southern Abyssinia
1844
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Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
Illustrations of the highlands of Aethiopia
[1845]
3
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir, 1807–1848
The highlands of Æthiopia
1844
4
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Travels to discover the source of the Nile
1790
5
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
Travels to discover the source of the Nile
1804-1805
6
Bernatz, Johann Martin, 1802–1878
Scenes in Ethiopia
1852
7
Bruce, James, 1730–1794
An interesting narrative of the travels of James Bruce ... into Abyssinia, to discover the shores of the Nile
1790
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Bruce, James, 1730–1794
James Bruce archive,
ca. 1750-ca.1850
9
Lefebvre, Théophile, 1811–1860
Voyage en Abyssinie
[1845-1851]
10
Mountnorris, George Annesley, Earl of, 1769–1844
Analyses of new works of voyages and travels, lately published in London
1810?]
11
Hoskins, G. A. (George Alexander), -1864
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile
1835
12
Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793–1875
The life of Bruce
1830
13
Mountnorris, George Annesley, Earl of, 1769–1844
Voyages and travels in India,
1809
14
Bredin, Miles
The pale Abyssinian
[2000]
15
Reid, J. M. (James Macarthur), 1901–1970
Traveller extraordinary
1968
16
Simpson, William, 1823–1899
Diary of a journey to Abyssinia, 1868
2002