Voyage to Abyssinia

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Author: Jeronimo Lobo (1592?-1678) Year: 1735 Publisher: Printed for A Bettsworth and C Hitch Place: London Description: xii+396+[8 contents] pages with tile-page printed in red and black. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound William Pitt Pratt, who was in business as a binder in London from 1823 to 1838, i n full period leather with raised spine bands and red labels in gilt, gilt decoration to spine and ruled edges in gilt of boards, page ends marbled. Edited by Samuel Johnson. Translated from the Portuguese by Joachim le Grand. First English edition, first printing. Jeronimo Lobo, a Jesuit missionary, was born in Lisbon, and entered the Order of Jesus at the age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to India, and in 1622 he arrived at Goa. With the intention of proceeding to Abyssinia, whose Negus (emperor) Segued had been converted to Roman Catholicism by Pedro Paez, he left India in 1624. He disembarked on the coast of Mombasa, and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla country, but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again, accompanied by Mendez, the patriarch of Ethiopia, and eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red Sea, and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as superintendent of the missions in Tigre. He remained there until death deprived the Catholics of their protector, the emperor Segued. Forced by persecution to leave the kingdom, in 1634 Lobo and his companions fell into the hands of the Turks at Massawa, who sent him to Ind

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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