The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 written by Father Francisco Alvares. The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional material by G.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford
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Ethiopia pji Alvares, Francisco. The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 written by Father Francisco Alvares. The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional material by G.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. (Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 114-115). Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus Reprint, 1975, 2 v. (xvi, 617 p.): ill., maps (some fold., 1 in back of v.2), plans, bib, index. Very good copy of the hardcover, a reprint of the work published in 1961. $25.00 Box 2424
The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881; First Series 64), revised and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. Follows on from Second Series 114, with which the main pagination is continuous. Chapters 89-142 of Alvares, with the narrative of the return to Portugal, a translation of a seventeenth-century Ethiopian description of Aksum, and accounts of the rock-cut churches at Lalibala and certain other matters.
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- The Prester John of the Indies : a true relation of the lands of the Prester John, being the narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia in 1520 written by Father Francisco Alvares. The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881) rev. and edited with additional material by G.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford
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- Alvares, Francisco
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- Very good
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- Reprint of 1961 edition
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- Hardcover
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- Kraus Reprint
- Place of Publication
- Millwood, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1975,
- Pages
- xvi, 617 pages.
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- 0.00 lbs
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- History of religion; African history and culture; Catholic Church; Portugal and Portuguese culture; Ethiopia;
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