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LUDOLF, Hiob. Historia Aethiopica. Frankfurt: Zunner, 1681-93. 2o. 3 parts in one vol. including Commentarius and Appendix. 16 engraved plates (11 folding), engraved folding map, 2 mezzotint portraits, one engraved portrait in text and 2 folding tables (a few tears to folding plates). Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. "For about two centuries Ludolf's History has been the source from which travellers and writers of articles on Ethiopia... have drawn their information...the History...is still indispensable for the Ethiopic and Amharic scholar, both for its varied contents and the accuracy of its information." Budge A History of Ethiopia pp. 183-84. Strong impressions of the unusual plates, many by J.P. Aubrey, the natural history plates after Roos. Brunet III:1224; Graesse IV:290. (3)
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LUDOLF, Hiob. Historia Aethiopica. Frankfurt: Zunner, 1681-93. 2o. 3 parts in one vol. including Commentarius and Appendix. 16 engraved plates (11 folding), engraved folding map, 2 mezzotint portraits, one engraved portrait in text and 2 folding tables (a few tears to folding plates). Contemporary calf (rebacked). FIRST EDITION. "For about two centuries Ludolf's History has been the source from which travellers and writers of articles on Ethiopia... have drawn their information...the History...is still indispensable for the Ethiopic and Amharic scholar, both for its varied contents and the accuracy of its information." Budge A History of Ethiopia pp. 183-84. Strong impressions of the unusual plates, many by J.P. Aubrey, the natural history plates after Roos. Brunet III:1224; Graesse IV:290. (3)