A new history of Ethiopia
Subtitle: being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia : vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John : in four books : wherein are contained : I. An account of the nature, quality and condition of the country, and inhabitants : their mountains, metals and minerals : their rivers (particularly of the source of the Nile and Niger) : their birds, beasts, amphibious animals (as the river horse and crocodile), serpents, &c. ; II. Their political government : the genealogy and succession of their Kings : a description of their court, and camp, their power and military discipline : their courts of justice, &c. ; III. Their ecclesiastical affairs : their conversion to the Christian religion, and the propagation thereof, their sacred writings, their sacraments, rites, ceremonies, and church discipline : the decrease of the Romish religion, their contentions with the Jesuits, their separation from the Greek Church, &c. ; IV. Their private oeconomy, their books and learning : their common names, their dyet, marriages, and polygamies, their mechanick arts, and trades, their burials, their merchandize and commerce, &c. : illustrated with copper plates
By: by the learned Job Ludolphus, author of the Ethiopic lexicon ; made English by J.P., gent
Publisher: Printed for Samuel Smith, bookseller, at the Prince's Arms in St Pauls Church-yard
Published: 1682
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: History; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Travel
Work titles: Historia Aethiopica
Notes: Translation of: Historia Aethiopica, sive, Brevis et succincta descriptio regni Habessinorum; published 1681.

Signatures: pi⁴ A-L⁴ 2A-3D⁴ 3E² 3F-3H⁴.

Pagination erratic, but text is continuous.

Includes bibliographical references.

English short title catalogue, R9778

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed.), L3468

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Lib. copy bound in contemporary mottled calf with arms of Duke of Newcastle in gilt on front and back boards; engraved armorial bookplate of Henry Fiennes Pelham Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, on p.[2] of cover.