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TRAVELS AND VOYAGES<br>THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA<br><br>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)...

TRAVELS AND VOYAGES
THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA

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)... by ALVARES, Francisco

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Title: TRAVELS AND VOYAGES
THE FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF A EUROPEAN TRAVELER TO EAST AFRICA

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)...
Author: ALVARES, Francisco
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description: 8vo. (20), 207 ff., 1 blank. Bound in 19th-century calf, gilt title on spine, gilt-ruled borders on covers, fore-edges gilt. Repair to tear in blank margin of title and wormhole filled; cuts to lower blank margin of p. 132, just grazing a signature letter; apart from some toning in the margin, very good.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. The work appears on all four 16th century book lists employed in the influential exhibit, Europe Informed, which identified in a historically controlled way the most widely disseminated early travel accounts informing 16th century Europeans about Asia and Africa.The account is the fruit of an embassy made by the author in connection with the search for eastern Christians. The journey had roots in the medieval legend of Prester John, a mythical King whose vast domains contained wondrous panaceas and who was, to boot, a Christian. The legend proved a well-known stimulus to European exploration, and just as importantly provided Catholic Europe with an influential eschatological fantasy: reunited with their long lost eastern brethren, they would finally subdue Islam or, in a later generation, Protestants etc. Although the work is much concerned with the activity and structure of the Eastern Church, the fact that Alvares recognizes Ethiopians as equals paradoxically makes him more observant, and the work contains much information about agriculture, natural history (wild life and the terrible locusts), the curious architectural tradition of carving churches out of rock etc.According to Rogers, Alvares was constrained from publishing his account, but an unauthorized version appeared in Portuguese 1540. An Italian translation with a somewhat different recension of the text appeared in Ramusio's volume devoted to Africa (1550); this first Spanish language edition by Tomás de Padilla was the first of three 16th century editions in that language*Adams A-848; BL Spanish, p. 7; Francis M. Rogers, Europe Informed, 51 and The Quest for Eastern Christians, 162; revised Hakluyt Society edition Series 2, vols. 113-14, prepared by C. F. Beckingham & G. W. B. Huntingford (1961).

Works by TARKINGTON Booth

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Title: Works
Author: TARKINGTON Booth
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1918. TARKINGTON, Booth. The Works of Booth Tarkington. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1918-1919. Fourteen volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and purple cloth, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, uncut and largely unopened, top edges gilt. $2800.Autograph edition, one of only 565 copies, signed by Tarkington in Volume 1, containing frontispiece portraits and plates, handsomely bound by Strikeman in three-quarter morocco gilt.This splendid limited edition of Booth Tarkington's Works features his first published work, The Gentleman from Indiana, which made him ""the most famous young man in America,"" and classics such as The Two Vanrevels, The Quest of Quesnay, The Flirt, Penrod, Pendord and Sam, In the Arena, The Turmoil, The Conquest of Canaan, Seventeen, The Magnificent Ambersons and Ramsey Milholland, together with major short works such as Monsieur Beaucaire, Harlequin and Columbine, The Beautiful Lady, His Own People and many more. Tarkington, who died in 1946, twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was beloved for his portrayal of American life in works that possess a ""lightness of touch a profound grasp of the human foibles"" (New York Times). A fine 14-volume set.

Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune by CALENDAR

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Title: Souvenir Pour l’an 1816. Contenant le lever et le coucher du soleil et de la lune
Author: CALENDAR
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Paris: (Doublet for) Caillot, 1815. Vertically oriented oblong 32mo (93 x 52 mm). Collation 1-48 (nested quires, stitched in the middle). [32] leaves, printed vertically, title-page printed on verso, woodcut royal arms on title, thick and thin page rule borders, colophon on recto of last leaf; first and last leaves mounted to wrappers. Contemporary pale orange wrappers, original pasteboard slipcase with scalloped gold-tooled border and title Souvenir on one side. Early signature of “Mme Dalmon” on slipcase (very sliightly rubbed).*** An ephemeral survival, in fine condition: a 19th-century version of the strip calendars that were popular in the previous century, it reads “vertically,” the book opening from the top or bottom of each double-page, the latter being imposed to extend from the top to the bottom of each leaf-opening. The almanac opens with the year 1816 in different calendars, most of which are wildy inaccurate, e.g., the Julian calendar (6531), or years from the foundation of Rome or from the birth of Naboassar. The Hebrew calendar is (glaringly) omitted. Each month has two page openings, one for the calendar of saints’ days, and one for times of sunrise and sunset and phases of the moon. The last four double-pages contain lists of the accessions to power of the “Principales puissances de l’Europe.” The calendar appeared after the restoration of Louis XVIII (following the 100-day interruption of Napoleon’s return) and is resolutely royalist, up to the last entry: “Etats-Unis d’Amér. James Madisson, président le 4 mars 1809. La durée de ses fonctions est de quatre ans.” (Thank you for your attention to this matter.) I locate no other copies. Cf. Grand-Carteret 1684, 1813 issue.

Fluxus: Today and Yesterday

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Title: Fluxus: Today and Yesterday
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Art and Design, 1993. Very Good. Fluxus: Today and Yesterday. Cambridge, UK: Art and Design, 1993. 95pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumping and rubbing.

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