Breue, e succinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell' Africa meridionale, fatto dal P. Girolamo Merolla da Sorrento, sacerdote cappuccino, missionario apostolico
Subtitle: continente variati clima, arie, animali, fiumi, frutti, vestimenti con proprie figure, diuersità di costumi, e di viueri per l'vso humano
By: scritto, e ridotto al presente stile istorico, e narratiuo dal P. Angelo Piccardo da Napoli predicatore dell' istess' ordine ; diviso in due parti
Publisher: Per Francesco Mollo
Published: 1692
Place of publication: In Napoli
Language: ita
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Description and travel; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Breve e svccinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell' Africa meridionale; Breve e succinta relatione del viaggio nel Congo
Work titles: Breve, e succinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo nell' Africa meridionale
Notes: In two parts. Part II has sectional t.p., p. 257.

With half title: Breve e succinta relatione del viaggio nel Congo.

Dedication signed: F. Serafino da Napoli, diffinitore Capuccino.

Signatures: a¹² A-2H⁸ 2I⁴.

Last p. blank.

Numbers 177-178 skipped in pagination.

Leaves of plates include 2 engraved frontispieces: one preceeding the t.p., and the other, with an ecclesiastical coat of arms, preceding the dedication. The first leaf of plates following the frontispieces (opposite p. 27), is unnumbered; the rest are numbered 1-17.

Includes index, p. [1]-[39] at end.

BL STC Italian, 17th cent., p. 569

Alden & Landis. European Americana, 692/113

Brunet, III, col. 1660

Grässe, IV, p. 499

Ternaux-Copans, H. Bib. asiatique et africaine, 2618

Contemporary inscription on front paste-down (upside-down, ms. waste?): Al R[r?]rdo P. [G?]u?]d:o di [I or J?] N[azar?]; signature on t.p.: Joannes M.; signature(?) on t.p.: Pizzi D[with o.s inside]; ms. notes or marks of ownership scattered throughout the text, cancelled in ink; early ownership mark that escaped cancellation(?), p. 61: delli PP: Capuccini di Triuento: early fists, p. 78, 88; a few early ms. notes, uncancelled, in the text; early ms. notes on versos of 2 plates (following p. 112 and p. 160); early ms. note and sonnet on front free endpaper.

Imperfect: lacks half title, plates 14-17 and leaves L7-L8, M1-M4.

Imperfect: lacks half title, 1st frontispiece, leaf 2H1, and all after 2H7.

Bound in contemporary vellum; front board re-covered.