The french and english in the red sea.

COLLATION :

8vo. 30pp, [2]. Disbound. Remnants of paper wrappers to spine, ink manuscript annotations to title; 'To be returned to Mr. Beke / J.V.P.' and 'Communicated to the Foreign Office 1862' respectively, occasional slight chipping and marginal loss. The second edition, printed in the same year as the first, of geographer and traveller Charles Tilstone Beke's (18001874) monograph regarding the Eastern Question: the discussion of strategic and political considerations of England and France in regard to foreign relations with Ethiopia and the peoples of the Red Sea coast.