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First editions thus of two lectures given by Dr. Gino Bartolommei-Gioli before theRoyal Academy of Georgofili in 1902 and 1903. In the first, the author focuses onthe Eritrean territory and its agriculture, while in the second work he goes on toanalyse public security, commerce, customs, hygiene conditions and theopportunities for Italian immigration, investments and labour in the area, arguingthat there was great scope for further development of Eritrea, particularly theuplands of the interior, through Italian colonisation.OCLC records only 2 copies of the first work (Harvard and Erfurt).THE PARIS VATHEK14. [BECKFORD, William]. Vathek, conte Arabe. Paris, Poinçot, 1787.8vo, pp. 190, wanting the terminal advertisement leaf; quire L slightly browned, buta very good, large copy (some outer edges untrimmed) in contemporary Continental(German?) quarter sheep and marbled boards, spine gilt, green silk bookmark.£3500First Paris edition of Beckford’s gothic masterpiece in the original French, soconsiderably revised from the Lausanne edition (also 1787) as to amount to ‘almosta new version’ (Chapman & Hodgkin, p. 127). Beckford also took the opportunityto expand the notes from one to twenty-four pages.INTRODUCING THE MAID OF BUTTERMERE15. [BUDWORTH (later PALMER), Joseph]. A Fortnight’s Ramble to the Lakesin Westmoreland, Lancashire, and Cumberland. By a Rambler. London, Printedfor Hookham and Carpenter, 1792.8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 267, [1]; a fine copy in attractive contemporary tree calf, redmorocco spine label; ownership inscription of Marcus Gage to title-page. £1600First edition, scarce, of ‘the first published account of a Lake District walkingtour’ (Bicknell 26.1).Budworth ‘walked upward of 240 miles’ in the Lakes, covering Kendal, Windermere,Rydal, Grasmere, Keswick, Penrith, Helm Crag, Hellvellyn, Skiddaw, etc. It wasthis guidebook, which was reprinted in 1795 and 1810, which set the itinerary formany a visitor to the Lakes; and to the attention of those readers he brought theyoung daughter of the landlord of the Fish Inn in Buttermere, Mary Robinson,afterwards known as ‘The Maid of Buttermere’, though he disguised ormisremembered her name as Sally. After revisiting the Lakes in 1797 and perhapsconscious of the unwanted attention he had brought to the girl, Budworth toneddown his paeon to her beauty. But to no avail: in 1802 she was wooed and marriedto ‘Colonel Hope’, the supposed brother of an Earl, in fact a bigamist imposter.