A new history of Ethiopia : 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 containing, 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) ... &c. : II. their political government ... &c. : III. their ecclesiastical affairs, their conversion to the Christian religion ... their sacred writings ... &c. : IV. their private economy, their books and learning, their common names, their diet, marriages, and polygamies, their mechanick arts and trades ... &c. : illustrated with copper plates / by the learned Job Ludolphus ... ; to which is added, a new and exact map of the country ... with the life of Gregorius Abba, and the author's opinion of some other writers concerning Ethiopia ... ; made English by J.P. Gent.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Historia Aethiopica
Early English books online.
Main Author: Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704
Other Authors: J. P., Gent
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Latin
Published: London : Printed for Samuel Smith ..., 1684.
Series:Early English books online.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (38 unnumbered pages, 88, 151-370, 373-398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, chart, map)
Format: Electronic eBook

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