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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 Prutkı (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 ?íma? 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 Prutkı 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 (Prutkı, 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 , Prutkı 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.

The Hakluyt Society, Second Series. No. 174. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original gilt blue cloth with dust-jacket. London, Hakluyt Society, .