A short relation of the river Nile, of its sourse and current, of its overflowing the campagnia of Ægypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean : and of other curiosities / written by an eye-witnesse, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lobo, Jerónimo, 1596?-1678.

Contributor:

• Wyche, Peter, Sir, 1628-1699?, translator.
• Martyn, John, active 1649-1680m, bookseller.

Standardized Title:

• Itinerário. Selections. English

Language:

• English
• Portuguese

Subjects (All):

• Africa--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
• Nile River--Early works to 1800.
• Red Sea--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
• Prester John (Legendary character)--Early works to 1800.
• Date palm--Early works to 1800.
• Animals, Mythical--Early works to 1800.
• Animals, Mythical.
• Date palm.
• Prester John (Legendary character).
• Travel.
• Africa.
• Nile River.
• Red Sea.

Genre:

• Early works.

Physical Description:

[8], 105, [1] pages ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

toa- tho- mea, cein (3) 1669 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society and are to be sold at the Sign of the Bell without Temple Bar, 1669.

Contents:

• A short relation of the river Nile
• Of the famous unicorne, where he is bred, and how shap'd
• The reason why the Abyssine emperour is called Prester John of the Indies
• A short tract of the Red Sea, and of the cause of this name by which 'tis commonly known
• A discourse of palme-trees, of their variety, their fruit, (and the usefullnesse of it.) of their proper soyle.

Notes:

• "A translation by Sir Peter Wyche of: Lobo, Jerónimo. Itinerario."--ESTC.
• Signatures: pi² A-F⁸ G⁸(-G8).
• Leaf A1 signed "a"; leaf A2 unsigned.
• Woodcut head-piece; type ornament head-piece.
• Printed marginalia.
• Order-to-print from the Council of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, dated November 1668 and signed "Brounker Pres.", on leaf A1v.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center copy has a few manuscript marks in text.
• Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1953 from University Place Bookshop.
• Kislak Center copy has on front pastedown armorial bookplate (arms: argent, a chevron gules between three foxes' heads erased of the same; crest: a fox passant gules; motto: Prodesse quam conspici) of an unidentified former owner (possibly of the Fox family?).
• Kislak Center copy: boards detached.

Cited in:

• ESTC R12438
• Wing L2733

OCLC:

7229564