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 Christofte Plantin, à la licorne d'or
Published: 1558
Place of publication: En Anuers
Language: fre
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Description and travel; History
Work titles: Verdadera informaçam das terras do Preste Ioam
Notes: Signatures: * [paragraph mark] A-Z a-v⁸ (mark 8, v⁶⁻⁸ blank).

Includes index.

Printer's device on the title page.

Italic type.

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.

"Av threvertvevs Signevr, monsighevm Balthasar Schetz, Iehan Bellere desire salut & felicité."--prelim. leaves 2-4.

The Alvares text is preceded by the narrative and letters of André Corsal, along with two of his letters, and by "Preface excvsatoire de M. Ian Baptiste Rhamvsio, sur le discours par luy reduit en la déscription du voyage fait en Ethiopie par Dom Francisque Alvarez".

Also issued with imprint of Christofle Plantin.

Author named on recto of numberede leaf 41.

The woodcuts are reduced copies of those illustrating the 1st ed. of the translation found in v. 2 of J. Leo Africanus' Historiale description de l'Afrique, Lyon, 1556.