Historiale description de l'Ethiopie
Subtitle: contenant vraye relation des terres, & païs du grand roy, & empereur Prete-Ian, l'assiete de ses royaumes & prouinces, leurs coutumes, loix & religion, auec les pourtraits de leurs temples & autres singularitez, cy deuant non cogneües. : auec la table des choses memorables contenues en icelle
Publisher: De l'imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, à la licorne d'or.
Published: 1558
Place of publication: En Anuers
Language: frm
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Description and travel; Foreign relations
Work titles: Verdadera informaçam das terras do Preste Ioam
Notes: Translation of v. 1 of: Navigationi et viaggi / Giovanni Battista Ramusio, but originally published in Portuguese as: Verdadera informaçam das terras do Preste Ioam / Francisco Alvares.

There is another issue with imprint: En Anvers. Chez Iehan Bellere. 1558.

Signatures: *⁸ [par.]⁸(-[par.]8) A-Z⁸ a-v⁸(-v6,7,8) ([par.]8, v6-8 blank)

Includes index.

Reference to Columbus, leaf 39 verso; reference to Brazil & Spanish West Indies, leaf 16 recto.

European Americana 558/2.