Istorica descrizione de' tre' regni Congo, Matamba et Angola
Subtitle: situati nell'Etiopia inferiore occidentale e delle missioni apostoliche esercitateui da religiosi Capuccini
By: accuratamente compilata dal p. Gio. Antonio Cauazzi da Montecuccolo, sacerdote capuccino, il quale vi fu' prefetto ; e nel presente stile ridotta dal p. Fortunato Alamandini da Bologna, predicatore dell'istesso ordine
Contributors: Alamandini, Fortunato, 1636-1692, editor; Monti, Giacomo, -approximately 1689, publisher
Publisher: Per Giacomo Monti
Published: 1687
Language: ita
Number of pages: 933
Subjects: Capuchins; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Travel; Missions
Description: A description of western Africa, with material on the competition between the Dutch and Portuguese for bases on the coast.
Notes: Signatures: [pi]⁴ [maltese cross]⁴ A-6B⁴.

Errata: page 933.

The frontispiece is included in pagination and printed on leaf pi2r.

Frontispiece signed: F. Paul. a Lothar.a cap. sculp.

Full-page engravings signed: F. Fort.o f.f.

Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials; numerous engraved illustrations in text.

Includes index.

Brunet I, 1699

Grässe I, 50

Binding: contemporary vellum; ink title on spine; signed and dated in ink on title page; bookplate of the Explorer's Club on front pastedown and its blind stamp on title page.

Library's copy lacks final blank leaf, reported in other copies.