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SECOND HAND BOOKS
The Hakluyt Society
Third Series No. 23 and No. 24
Pedro Paez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622 Volume I and II
Edited by Isabel Boavida, Herve Pennec and Manuel Joao Ramos.
Translated by Christopher J. Tribe.
This book, in two volumes, contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese), 1564-1622, who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions, first in India and then in Ethiopia, long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscripts.
Hardcover, 501/427pp, 2011.
Excellent condition, dust jackets included.
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