JOHNSON, Samuel (translator) -- LOBO, Jeronymo. A Voyage to Abyssinia ... with a continuation ... by [Joachim] Le Grand, From the French, London, for A. Bettesworth, 1735, 8°, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, title in red and black (occasional light soiling and browning), contemporary calf (spine restored). [Courtney & Smith p. 2; Rothschild 1215]

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JOHNSON, Samuel (translator) -- LOBO, Jeronymo. A Voyage to Abyssinia ... with a continuation ... by [Joachim] Le Grand, From the French, London, for A. Bettesworth, 1735, 8°, FIRST EDITION OF THIS TRANSLATION, title in red and black (occasional light soiling and browning), contemporary calf (spine restored). [Courtney & Smith p. 2; Rothschild 1215]

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Although bearing a London imprint, the Voyage was printed in Birmingham for Thomas Warren. Johnson received 5 guineas in payment. Most of the work is, in fact, an epitome from the French edition of 1728 rather than an exact translation.

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