Prutky, Remedius

PRUTKY'S TRAVELS IN ETHIOPIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

Translated and edited by J. H. Arrowsmith-Brown and annotated by Richard Pankhurst. Pp. xxviii+546, frontispiece, 4 full page maps, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; blue cloth, lettered & decorated in gilt and ruled in blind; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled and scuffed; top edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Hakluyt Society, London, 1991. Hakluyt Second Series, No, 174. *Prutky, a Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then Emperor, Iyasu II. Item #167068

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