A voyage to Abyssinia
By: translated from the French [by] Samuel Johnson ; edited by Joel J. Gold.
Contributors: Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.; Gold, Joel J., 1931-
Series: The Yale edition of the works of Samuel Johnson ;; v. 15
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Lobo, Jerónimo, 1596?-1678 -- Travel -- Ethiopia.; Ethiopia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Description: "Samuel Johnson's first book, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), was an English translation of Joachim Le Grand's French version of the manuscript account of the travels to Abyssinia of Father Jerónimo Lobo, a seventeenth-century Portuguese Jesuit missionary."--Introduction (page xxiii)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi).
Translation of the French ed. of: Itinerário, which was itself a translation of the unpublished Portuguese manuscript.
Maps on lining papers.