JOHNSTON, Charles (1810-1872). Travels in Southern Abyssinia, through The Country of Adal to the Kingdom of Shoa. London: J. Madden and Co., 1844. 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x140 mm). 2 lithographed frontispieces, engraved folding map. Publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped green cloth (head of spine skillfully repaired to vol. II). FIRST EDITION, WILFRED THESIGER'S COPY. Johnson's expedition to Abyssinia had the primary aim of studying the lives of the people as they related to the great watershed of Lake Tana flowing into the Blue Nile and Lake Abbie's Rivers. Thesiger was born in Abyssinia in 1910, and explored Danakil Country in 1933, as well as Northern and Southern Abyssinia in 1959. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.