A short relation of the river Nile, of its sourse and current; of its overflowing the campagnia of Ægypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean: and of other curiosities: written by an eye-witnesse, who lived many years in the chief kingdoms of the Abyssine empire.

Accession number

PML 150728

Creator

Lobo, Jerónimo, 1596?-1678.

Published

London, J. Martyn, 1669.

Credit line

Bequest; Miss Julia P. Wightman.

Notes

Translated from Jeronymo Lobo's Itinerário by Sir Peter Wyche.
This copy listed among the books bound by Samuel Mearne for Charles II in a statement preserved in the Thynne papers, the archives of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, vol. 73 (box 26), leaf 30.

Description

[3] ., 105 p. 15 cm.

Provenance

From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.

Binding

Full red morocco binding with the cipher of King Charles II. In a cherry morocco leather slip case by J.P.W.

Classification

Book

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