Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/53
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 496: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    13, ALVAREZ (Francisco). Historia de las Cosas de Ethiopia, en la qual se cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potencia del emperador della (que es el que muchos han pensado ser el preste Juan) con otras infinitas particularidades, assi de la religio de aquella gente, como de sus cerimonias. Copia de diversas cartas de algunos padres y her- manos de la compania de Jesus, recebidas 1555, delas grandes marauillas, que dios nuestro sefior obra en augmenta de la santa Fe catolica, en las Indias del Rey de Portugal, y en el reyno d’Japon, y en la tierra de Brasil. Con la description d’las varias leyes y costumbres de la gente del gran reyno de la China y otras tierras nuevamente descubiertas. With the Arms of Don Artal de Alagon, Conde de Sagasto, engraved on wood on the title-page. Black Letter, double columns. Folio. A magnificent copy bound by Hardy-Menil in crimson levant morocco gilt, inside dentelles, g.e. Saragossa, 1561. (See Illustration opposite, and Plate No. I). £85 Palau’s Manual, Vol. I, p. 56. Rodrigues, Bzbliotheca Brasiliense, 143. Medina, Vol. I, No. 185. See Sir E. Denison Ross, Prester John and the Empire of Ethiopia in A. P. Newton’s Travels and Travellers in the Middle Ages, p. 183. Very rare Spanish translation made by Thomas Padilla, from the Portuguese. Alvarez was sent as secretary by King Manoel I of Portuggal to Ethiopia with the Ambassador Duarte Galvao, he remained six years in Abyssinia, and this work contains a full account of this interesting voyage. On folio 66 begins the second part, with separate title, THE JESUIT RELATIONS FROM BRAZIL, IN SpANIsH, which end on Folio 8o. Title reads in translation as follows :— “Copy of various letters from some Fathers and Brothers of the Order of Jesuits, received in 1555, of the great marvels which our Lord has accomplished in augmenting the Holy Catholic faith in the Indies, belonging to the King of Portugal and in the kingdom of Japan, and in the land of Brazil. With the description of the various laws and customs of the people in the grand kingdom of China, and other lands recently discovered.” 7
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