Author: ALVARES, FRANCISCO. Stanley, Henry E.J.
Title: Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520 - 1527 by Father Francisco Alvarez. Translated from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and an introduction by Lord Stanley of Alderley. [First edition].
Description: London, The Hakluyt Society, 1881. XXVII,[1],412, 18 pp. 1 fold. b./w. map. Orig. publisher's blind stamped blue cloth over boards, lettered gilt to spine, gilt vignette to upper board. 8vo. - Spine sl. discol.; endpapers browned. (Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, [First series], no. 64).Very rare original copy of the first edition. Copy in neat original binding. Very difficult to find.

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