Relation historique de l'Ethiopie occidentale
Subtitle: contenant la description des royaumes de Congo, Angolle, & Matamba, traduite de l'Italien du P. Cavazzi, & augmmentée de plusieurs relations portugaises des meilleurs auteurs, avec des notes, des cartes géographiques, & un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce
By: Par le R. P. J.B. Labat de l'ordre des Freres Prêcheurs
Contributors: Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738; Guattini, Michele Angelo, -1668
Publisher: Chez Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine le fils, libraire, ruë S. Jacques, vis-à-vis la ruë des Noyers, à la Victoire.
Published: 1732
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Missions; Dutch; Portuguese; Description and travel; History; Capuchins
Work titles: Istorica descrizione de tre regni Congo, Matamba ed Angola
Notes: Translation by, Jean Baptiste Labat of: Istorica descrizione de tre regni Congo, Matamba ed Angola, first printed in Bologna, 1687.

Contains several Portuguese accounts of West Africa material on the competition between the Dutch and Portuguese for bases on the coast.

"Relation curieuse et nouvelle  d'un voyage de Congo", volume 5, pages [89]-268, has divisional title page; it includes only "Voyage de Congo du pere Michel-Ange, & du pere Denys de Carlis, Capucins missionaires apostoliques au dit royaume de Congo"

"Journal d'un voyage de Lisbonne a l'isle de S. Thomé sous la ligne, fait par un pilote portugais en 1626. Ecrit en Portugais, & traduit en François par le P. Labat", volume, pages [269]-408, has divisional title page.

Pagination: volume 1: [4], 216, 219-290, 289-31 [that is 312], 315-482, 489-495, [19] pages, [9] folded leaves of plates; volume 2: [2], 457, [23] pages, [9] leaves of folded plates; volume 3: [4], 462, [30] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates; volume 4: [4], 506, [26] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates; volume 5: 408, [26] pages.

Signatures: volume 1: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-X¹² chi1 (chi1 verso blank); volume 2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-V¹² (G6, N4 missigned C6, I4); volume 3: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-V¹² (Q4, T3 missigned Q3, T4) (A1 verso blank) X⁴ Y² (Y1 verso blank); volume 4: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-Y¹² Z² (Z1 verso blank, Z2 blank); volume 5: A-R¹² (D8, D9, M3 versos blank) S⁸ Y⁴ (Y4 blank)

Errors in paging: volume 1: page 92, 93, 172, and 173,  2nd count, misumbered 84, 95, 173, and 175; page 365 and 383, 5th count, misnumbred 265 and 385; volume 3: pages 61, 328, and 34, 2nd count, misnumbered 65, 228, and 34; volume 4: pages 54, 2nd count, misnumbered 64; volume 5: pages 38, 98, 101, 103-104, 111, 166-167, and 321, 1st count, misnumbered 32, 96, 111, 113-114, 11, 164-165, and 121.

Errata: volume 1, page [17], 3rd count; volume 2: page [2], 2nd count; volume 3: page [4], 1st count and page [30], 3rd count; volume 4: page [2], 2nd count; volume 5: page [22], 3rd count.

Includes indexes; volume 1: pages [1-17], 3rd count; volume 2: pages [1-23], 3rd count; volume 3: pages [1-27], 3rd count; volume 4: pages [1-23], 3rd count; volume 5: pages [1-17], 2nd count.

Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: page 148.

European Americana, 732/56.

Purchase; 2018; 19-198.