Research Catalog

Title

A short relation of the River Nile [electronic resource] : of its source and current; Of its Overflowing the Campagnia of Aegypt, 'till it runs into the Mediterranean; and of other curiosities. With a new preface. Written by an eye-witness, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine Empire.

Author

Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.

Publication

London : printed for the Royal Society, MDCLXIX: reprinted for, and sold by J. Lackington, No 46 & 47, Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, MDCCXCI. [1791]

Details

Description

[2],113,[1]p.; 8⁰.

Uniform Title

Itinerario. English. Selections

Alternative Title

Itinerario.

Subject

• Ethiopia > History > 1490-1889
• Ethiopia > Description and travel
• Africa > Description and travel > Early works to 1800

Note

• Translated by Sir Peter Wyche from the Portuguese manuscript of Jeronymo Lobo's 'Itinerario'.
• With a half-title.
• Price from imprint: price stitched, 2s. 6d.
• Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog

Reproduction (note)

• Electronic reproduction.

OCLC

• 642167692
• ECCO1-N22928

Author

Lobo, Jerónymo, 1596?-1678.

Title

A short relation of the River Nile [electronic resource] : of its source and current; Of its Overflowing the Campagnia of Aegypt, 'till it runs into the Mediterranean; and of other curiosities. With a new preface. Written by an eye-witness, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine Empire.

Imprint

London : printed for the Royal Society, MDCLXIX: reprinted for, and sold by J. Lackington, No 46 & 47, Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, MDCCXCI. [1791]

Reproduction

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, N22928.

Connect to:

Full text online available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.