Relation historique d'Abissinie. Traduite du Portugais, continuée et augmentée de plusieurs Dissertations, Lettres et Mémoires par M. Le Grand

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Author: Lobo, Jeronimo (1592?-1678) Year: 1728 Publisher: Chez la Veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Coustelier Place: Paris Description: [2]+514+[4 contents and errata]+[2] pages with 2 folding maps, lacks frontispiece. Small Quarto (10" x 7 3/4"). Rebacked in the 19th century leather, retaining the original spine with raised bands and gilt decorative stamping and lettering to spine. Translated from the original Portuguese manuscripts by Jackim le Grande. First edition. Born in Lisbon, he 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 Páez, 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 India to procure a ransom for his imprisoned fellow-missionaries. In this he was successful, but could not induce the Portuguese viceroy to send an ar

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