COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Cavazzi, Giovanni Antonio, 1621-1678.
Author (contributor):
Guattini, Michele Angelo, -1668.
Author (contributor):
Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738.
Title:
Relation historique de l'Ethiopie occidentale: : contenant la description des royaumes de Congo, Angolle, & Matamba, traduite de l'Italien du P. Cavazzi, & augmmentée de plusieurs relations portugaises des meilleurs auteurs, avec des notes, des cartes géographiques, & un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce. /
Publisher:
Chez Charles-Jean-Baptiste Delespine le fils libraire ruë S Jacques vis-à-vis la ruë des Noyers à la Victoire
Begin Publication Date:
1732
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991005016969706966
Permanent Call Number:
HA732 .C377r
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 19-198
Uniform Resource Identifier:
Subjects:
Capuchins--Missions--Africa, West.
Subjects:
Dutch--Africa, West.
Subjects:
Portuguese--Africa, West.
Subjects:
Kongo Kingdom--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Africa, West--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Pernambuco (Brazil)--History.
Subjects:
Brazil--History--1549-1762.
Subjects:
Imprint 1732.
General Note:
Translation by, Jean Baptiste Labat of: Istorica descrizione de tre regni Congo, Matamba ed Angola, first printed in Bologna, 1687.; Contains several Portuguese accounts of West Africa material on the competition between the Dutch and Portuguese for bases on the coast.; "Relation curieuse et nouvelle d'un voyage de Congo", volume 5, pages [89]-268, has divisional title page; it includes only "Voyage de Congo du pere Michel-Ange, & du pere Denys de Carlis, Capucins missionaires apostoliques au dit royaume de Congo"; "Journal d'un voyage de Lisbonne a l'isle de S. Thomé sous la ligne, fait par un pilote portugais en 1626. Ecrit en Portugais, & traduit en François par le P. Labat", volume, pages [269]-408, has divisional title page.; Pagination: volume 1: [4], 216, 219-290, 289-31 [that is 312], 315-482, 489-495, [19] pages, [9] folded leaves of plates; volume 2: [2], 457, [23] pages, [9] leaves of folded plates; volume 3: [4], 462, [30] pages, [2] folded leaves of plates; volume 4: [4], 506, [26] pages, [6] folded leaves of plates; volume 5: 408, [26] pages.; Signatures: volume 1: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-X¹² chi1 (chi1 verso blank); volume 2: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-V¹² (G6, N4 missigned C6, I4); volume 3: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-V¹² (Q4, T3 missigned Q3, T4) (A1 verso blank) X⁴ Y² (Y1 verso blank); volume 4: pi² (pi1 blank, pi2 verso blank) A-Y¹² Z² (Z1 verso blank, Z2 blank); volume 5: A-R¹² (D8, D9, M3 versos blank) S⁸ Y⁴ (Y4 blank); Errors in paging: volume 1: page 92, 93, 172, and 173, 2nd count, misumbered 84, 95, 173, and 175; page 365 and 383, 5th count, misnumbred 265 and 385; volume 3: pages 61, 328, and 34, 2nd count, misnumbered 65, 228, and 34; volume 4: pages 54, 2nd count, misnumbered 64; volume 5: pages 38, 98, 101, 103-104, 111, 166-167, and 321, 1st count, misnumbered 32, 96, 111, 113-114, 11, 164-165, and 121.; Errata: volume 1, page [17], 3rd count; volume 2: page [2], 2nd count; volume 3: page [4], 1st count and page [30], 3rd count; volume 4: page [2], 2nd count; volume 5: page [22], 3rd count.; Includes indexes; volume 1: pages [1-17], 3rd count; volume 2: pages [1-23], 3rd count; volume 3: pages [1-27], 3rd count; volume 4: pages [1-23], 3rd count; volume 5: pages [1-17], 2nd count.; Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
Local Note:
John Carter Brown LIbrary copy bound in contemporary full treed calf.; John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Divestiture Fund.