A voyage to Abyssinia : By Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit. Containing, A Narrative of the Dangers he underwent in his first Attempt to pass from the Indies into Abyssinia; with a Description of the Coasts of the Red-Sea. An Account of the History, Laws, Customs, Religion, Habits, and Buildings of the Abyssins; with the Rivers, Air, Soil, Birds, Beasts, Fruits and other natural Productions of that remote and unfrequented Country. A Relation of the Admission of the Jesuits into Abyssinia in 1625, and their Expulsion from thence in 1634. An exact Description of the Nile, its Head, its Branches, the Course of its Waters, and the Cause of its Inundations. With a continuation of the history of Abyssinia down to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and Fifteen Differtations on various Subjects relating to the History, Antiquities, Government, Religion, Manners, and natural History of Abyssinia, and other Countries mention'd by Father Jerome Lobo. By Mr. Legrand. From the French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.

Standardized Title:

Voyage historique d'Abyssinie. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethiopia--History.

Ethiopia.

Jesuits--Ethiopia.

Jesuits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii,396,[8]p. )

Other Title:

Voyage to Abyssinia.

Voyage to Abyssinia

Place of Publication:

London : printed for A. Bettesworth, and C. Hitch at the Red-Lyon in Paternoster-Row, MDCCXXXV. [1735]

Notes:

Translated by Samuel Johnson - Titlepage in red and black.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T88596.

OCLC:

642722144