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Ancient world 902Mercer, Samuel A. B. The Ethiopic Liturgy: Its Sources, Development, and Present Form. Milwaukee:Young Churchman Company, 1915, xvi, 487p. Ex-library copy. Bound in navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine; blind-stamping on boards. Front hinge cracked, though holding; rear hinge is sturdy, book pockets, rubber stamps on top and bottom paper edges. The textblock is square and the pages are clean. Some pages have minor closed tearing at outer edge. Book, though, handles well and is in good condition. With facsimile of liturgy at rear, including a fold-out of "The John Rylands Papyrus of the Nicene Creed." Mild chipping to spine ends and corners. Slight edgewear. Scarce first edition copy of the famous Hale Lectures presentation of the Ethiopic Liturgy in the English language. $25.00

Religion lbij Lobo, Jerónimo 1595-1678. The Itinerario of Jeronimo Lobo. Translated by Donald M. Lockhart. From the Portuguese text established and edited by M.G. Da Costa. With an Introduction and Notes by C. F. Beckingham. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1984, xxxvi, 417 pages, illus, index. Good copy in dust jacket. $13.50 Box 2022
Jerónimo Lobo,1595-1678, was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. He took part in the unsuccessful efforts to convert Ethiopia from the native Ethiopian church to Roman Catholicism until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1643. Afterwards he wrote an account of his time in Ethiopia, Itinerário, which is an important source for the history and culture of that country.

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,… Read More