LOBO, JEROME
Voyage historique d'Abissinie. Traduite dur Portugais, continuée & augmentée de plusieurs Dissertations, Lettres & Memoires. Par M. Le Grand, Prieur de Neuville-les-Dames & de Prevessin.
A Paris, Chez la Veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Coustelier, & Jacques Guerin Libraires, Quay des Augustins., 1728. 4to. Engr. frontisp. XIV, [4], 514, [8] pp. and 2 folded maps. Ample margins. (26x20 cm.) First map with repaired tear; contemp. initial W in ink on first flyleaf. Bookplate and mounted handwritten note inner frontcover. Internally very good condition. Binding repaired. Contemp. calf over wooden boards. Red edges. Covers re-attached to spine. Spine and corners damaged and worn. French language. Édition origionale de la traduction française (la plus estimée). Frontispiece by C.N. Cochin after L. de Boullogne; large initials and woodcut vignettes by V.LS. The bookplate is from Sidney Edward Bouverie Bouverie-Pusey. Jerónimo Lobo (1595-1678) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. He took part in the unsuccessful efforts to convert Ethiopia from the native Ethiopian church to Roman Catholicism until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1643. Afterwards he wrote an account of his time in Ethiopia, Itinerário, which is an important source for the history and culture of that country.
Boeknummer: 45495
€ 1853.00