PRUTKY, Václav Remedius. Prutky's Travels in Ethiopia and other Countries. Translated and Edited by J.H. Arrowsmith-Brown and Annotated by Richard Pankhurst. London: The University Press Cambridge for The Hakluyt Society, 1991.
8vo (213 x 137mm). Original light-blue cloth, upper boards with Society's device in gilt, borders ruled in blind, spines lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, original dustwrapper retaining price; pp. xxviii, 546, [2 (blank l.)]; half-tone frontispiece, one full-page facsimile, and 4 full-page maps in the text; dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed at edges, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, 2nd series, nos. 174. Václav Prutky (who took Remedius as a name in religion), was 'a Bohemian doctor of medicine and a Franciscan missionary, [who] worked in Ethiopia 1752-1753. His account in Latin includes material on the Middle East and India, but material on Syria and Palestine is not included in this translation. An appendix documents Prutky's mission to Russia in 1766-1769' (Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth).
Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth 2/174.
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