Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan

by Francisco Alvares

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8vo. 20 , 207 ff., 1 blank. Bound in 19th-century calf, gilt title on spine, gilt-ruled borders on covers, fore-edges gilt. Repair to tear in blank margin of title and wormhole filled; cuts to lower blank margin of p. 132, just grazing a signature letter; apart from some toning in the margin, very good. Rare first Spanish language edition of one of the earliest detailed reports on Ethiopia available to Europeans: “incomparably more detailed than any

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