A new history of Ethiopia : being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia, vulgarly, though erroneously, called the empire of Prester John : in four books : wherein are containing, I. an account of the nature, quality, and condition of the country, and inhabitants, their mountains, metals, and minerals, their rivers, (particularly, of the source of the Nile and Niger) ... &c. : II. their political government .. &c. : III. their ecclesiastical affairs, their conversion to the Christian religion ... their sacred writings ... &c. : IV. their private economy, their books and learning, their common names, their diet, marriages, and polygamies, their mechanick arts and trades ... &c. : illustrated with copper plates / by the learned Job Ludolphus ... ; to which is added, a new and exact map of the country ... with the life of Gregorius Abba, and the author's opinion of some other writers concerning Ethiopia ... ; made English by J.P. Gent.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704.

Contributor:

J. P., Gent.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 988:6.

Standardized Title:

Historia Aethiopica

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ethiopia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Ethiopia.

Ethiopia--History.

History.

Gorgoryos, Abba, 1600-approximately 1650.

Gorgoryos.

Physical Description:

38 unnumbered pages, 88, 151-370, 373-398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, chart, map

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Samuel Smith ..., 1684.

Notes:

Reproduction of original in Cambridge University Library.

Pages 164-165 lacking.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1979. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 988:6)

Cited in:

Wing L3469

OCLC:

12924401