LOBO, Jerome. A Voyage to Abyssinia. By... a Portuguese Jesuit. Translated into English by Samuel Johnson after the French translation by Joachim Le Grand. London: Printed for Bettesworth and Hitch, 1735. 8o. Title printed in red and black (blank margin of title repaired, Q2 torn and repaired; scattered light foxing at beginning and end). Modern half-calf. First edition of Lobo in English, and Johnson's first separate publication in book form. The book was printed in Birmingham, with a London imprint. Rothschild 1215.

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LOBO, Jerome. A Voyage to Abyssinia. By... a Portuguese Jesuit. Translated into English by Samuel Johnson after the French translation by Joachim Le Grand. London: Printed for Bettesworth and Hitch, 1735. 8o. Title printed in red and black (blank margin of title repaired, Q2 torn and repaired; scattered light foxing at beginning and end). Modern half-calf. First edition of Lobo in English, and Johnson's first separate publication in book form. The book was printed in Birmingham, with a London imprint. Rothschild 1215.

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