A Voyage to Abyssinia

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Lot 132 | A Voyage to Abyssinia
JOHNSON, Samuel, translator (1709-1784) and Father Jerome LOBO (1593-1678). A Voyage to Abyssinia. London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1735.

First edition in English of this early publication from Johnson. Johnson's translation was condensed from the French translation by Le Grand. Courtney & Smith p. 3.

Octavo (200 x 120mm). Title-page printed in red and black (spotting to title page, front endpaper nearly detached). Contemporary calf (joints and spine head worn, corners showing, some scuffing to covers). Provenance: annotation to title page and facing leaf.
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