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ALVARES, Francisco. Historia de las Cosas de Etiopia, en la qual se Cuenta muy copiosamente, el estado y potécia del Emperador della, (que es el que muchos an pesado ser el Preste Juan)... Antwerp, Juan Steelsius, 1557.
Rare first Spanish language edition of one of the earliest detailed reports on Ethiopia available to Europeans: “incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived, it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Moslem Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the 16th century.” -- Hakluyt Society I., p. 12.
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In Contemporary Calf
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RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista. Delle Navigationi et Viaggi... in Tre Volume divise: Nelle quali con relatione fedelissima si desrivono tutti quei paesi, che da già 300 anni sin’hora sono stati scoperti, così di verso Levante, & Ponente, come di verso Mezzo dì, & Tramontana. Venice, Giunti, 1588,1583,1606.
Fine set of the first scholarly voyage collection assembled in the 16th century, one of the first in a modern language, with more maps and illustrations than any prior anthology, and containing many accounts not previously published.
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The First Historian of the Xarifes
Dynastic Politics in 16th-Century Morocco
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TORRES, Diego de. Relation de l'origine et succez des Cherifs et de l'Estat des Royaumes de Maroc, Fez, et Tarudant. Paris, Jean Camusat, 1636.
Rare first French edition (original Spanish 1585) of Diego de Torres history of north Africa, a detailed account of the on-going conflict between the Xarifes (the Saadian dynasty), the king of Fez, and the Turks, augmented with his own first-hand observations.
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