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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxviii+546 pages with frontispiece, 4 maps, tables, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers in original jacket. Annotated by Richard Pankhurst. Second Series, Volume 147. First edition. Václav Prutky, a Bohemian doctor of medicine and a Franciscan missionary, 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. Remedius Prutký (1713-1770) directed his missionary orientation to the region of Egypt and Ethiopia, which were traditional places of orientation of Franciscan missionary activity. In May 1750, Brother Remedius traveled from Rome to Egypt, where Jakub Římař was already working as the prefect of the Franciscan missions at that time . In September, he moved to the Upper Egyptian city of Jirja (Girga) , where he met other Franciscan missionaries Martin Lang and the Italian Paolo d'Agnona. Together, they expanded their knowledge of Arabic in the Franciscan hospice there. Remedius Prutký wrote a more than two hundred-page dictionary of Arabic words, Catalogus verborum Arabicorum compendiosus . Other manuscript aids that Brother Remedius acquired during his life and perhaps already in preparation for the missions were a certain dictionary ( Vocabularium ), medical aids such as Varia medicinalia and a Latin-Arabic catechism in the form of questions and answers Doctrina Christiana . During their stay in Jirja , all three missionaries (Prutký, Lang and Paolo) were once arrested and the following day sentenced to death by impalement or, according to other reports, by being cut into pieces. However, they were released again a day later. After receiving an invitation from the Abyssinian emperor Yasu II. Adiam Sagada , Lang , Prutký and the newly Syrian, incorporated into the Czech Franciscan province, Brother Antonius ab Aleppo set off via Cairo and Suez and headed for Abyssinia ( Ethiopia ). In March 1752, the three missionaries arrived in the city of Gondar and subsequently spent less than a year in Abyssinia. At the end of 1752, the missionaries were expelled from the country by the same emperor for political and religious reasons. At the beginning of 1753, they actually left the country and sailed to Europe via India , Mauritius and the Cape of Good Hope . Condition: Gently bumped corners. Jacket with light edge wear, some rubbing to jacket else very good in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Slight shelf-wear.

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. dj. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Gently used.

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth with dj. Some shelfwear to dj. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 546 pages. Historical travel. A clean and sound book, light wear to the dust wrapper. All orders processed promptly and shipped from the UK.

Hardcover. dj. pp. xxviii, 546. 8vo. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decoration to front board. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, lightly rubbed dustjacket, minor creasing to front panel. Second Series No. 174. Annotated by Richard Pankhurst.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. New copies which have been in storage, resulting in a rubbed dustwrapper. Contents and cloth binding in new condition. Please ask for photo(s) if there isn't an image of our copy. Priority orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 24 or courier (particularly if over 2kg). Standard mail will be dispatched by Royal Mail TRACKED 48 (up to 2kg), heavier items by courier . Overseas orders will be dispatched by Royal Mail International.Tracked. PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR MY PRIVACY POLICY.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 574pp hardback, blue cloth gilt in wrapper (Hakluyt Society, Second Series 174).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Account of a Franciscan missionary's mid-18th century travels, primarily to Ethiopia, but also through India, the Middle East, and Europe. Copy is in near fine condition. Text appears unread. Dust jacket is very good. Some mild rubbing and sunning to the spine. …

1st edition. 8vo. xxviii + 546pp. B/w. frontispiece, maps. Original light blue cloth with gilt device to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Navy d/w. with light green title patch to upper wrapp. and to spine, some minor wear. Hakluyt Society, Second Series No.174. ISBN 0904180301 US$13.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. ex-library. XXIV-544 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents: Contents: Preface; Introduction; Preface by Prutky's amanuensis; Text: Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Condition: Very Good. Reading content is in clean and readable condition. Slight shelfwear to dust jacket. Some discoloutring to the spine but readable.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition reprint, hardcover, has slightest dings to spine ends, very faint soiling to top of spine, and a small stain to base of outside edge of text block, otherwise a solid VG+ copy in like dustjacket which has very slight bumps to spine ends and corners, a touch of edgewear, and some very faint rubbing.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 21cm, xxviii, 546p., frontis, 4 maps, 1 facsimile plate, appendices, bibliography, index, blue cloth, gilt decoration & spine titles, fine in fine jacket. (Tr) Second Series. Vol. 174. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxviii+546 pages with frontispiece, 4 maps, plate, appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt pictorial of the ship Vitoria to front cover in original jacket. Annotated by Richard Pankhurst. Second series, volume 174. First edition. Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor, Iyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in March, and, largely by his expertise in medicine, began to make friends among the court and the clergy. But the Coptic archbishop at Gondar soon prevailed upon the weak Emperor to expel the missionaries, who thus spent only nine months in Gondar, and seventeen months in the country altogether. From Masawa the missionaries went to Mocha, and thence by courtesy of a French ship to Pondicherry, where Dupleix the governor sent them in October 1752 to L'Orient in France. From there they returned to Rome by way of the Canal du Midi and Marseilles. From Rome Prutky recounts his journey to his home in Bohemia, his interview with Maria Theresa and her consort, and his journey back to Egypt via Leghorn. He then tells of his voyage back to Rome, from Alexandria through the Archipelago. The Ethiopian adventure forms the bulk of the whole, and, in view of the scarcity of information about that country, is the underlying reason for the translation of the book. But Prutky's account of Mocha, and the European trading factories there, as well as his description of India and Ceylon as seen during six weeks in Pondicherry, is of no small interest, as is his account of Dupleix's recently completed palace, destoryed in 1761. Both his voyage from Mocha to Pondicherry and his much longer voyage from Pondicherry to France are given added interest by the inclusion of the daily ship's log. The ends with a sad account, not written by Prutky, of his final task as Prefect of the mission in St Petersburg from 1766 to 1769, ending with his expulsion from Russia by Catherine the Great, and his death in Florence immediately afterwards. Condition: Some light rubbing to jacket extremities else a better than very good copy in like jacket.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. xxii, 546pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw frontis, 4 maps. Or blue cloth in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Translation of the travels of Franciscan missionary Remedius Prutky from 1752-1769. Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 174. Size: 8vo.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Light shelf wear to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Volume 174.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good hardback copy in very good dustjacket. xxvii, 546pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. As photographed; near-new condition; Hakluyt Second Series 174; private ownership, owner's neat name (the historian G D Ramsay) to ffep; otherwise unmarked and as-new throughout showing little sign of use; xxviii + 546 incl. index + frontis. portr + 4 maps.…

Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, 8vo: frontispiece, xxviij, 546pp., footnotes & references, 4 maps, appendices, general bibliography, index. TEXT IN ENGLISH. Very fine copy. Volume Second Series nr. 174. The Hakluyt Society.

Hard Cover. Condition: F-. F-. First Edition. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. xxviii, 546, with a frontispiece & 4 maps. A near fine copy.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sky blue cloth hardback book with lovely gilt ship design on front board, and gilt title impressions on the spine. Comes with nice, clean dust jacket. The book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Small speckles of foxing to top edge of endpapers. Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge. 546 pages all intact, all pages, text, maps and illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Second series, published by The Hakluyt Society in 1991, first edition. A fascinating insight into the history of Prutky's travels to Ethiopia and other countries.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1991, 1st edition. Octavo. xxviii, 546pp. Publisher's cloth, binding square and firm. In the printed dust jacket, minor edge wear and fading. Light spotting to text-block. Otherwise clean within. A 'Very Good' copy.

21.5cm, xxviii,546p., frontispiece, 4 maps, blue cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket. (tr).

xxviii+546pp. 8vo. Original cloth in duswrapper. First edition. Illustrated in b/w including maps. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 546 pages Expedition by Remedius Prutky who led a mission to Ethiopia in 1751 Book near fine just 2 very small marks on front board.