A voyage to Abyssinia, by Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese missionary. Containing the history, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that remote and unfrequented country, continued down to the beginning of the eighteenth century: with fifteen dissertations on various subjects, relating to the antiquities, government, religion, manners, and natural history, of Abyssinia. By M. Le Grand. Translated from the French by Samuel Johnson, LL.D. To which are added, various other tracts by the same author, not published by Sir John Hawkins, or Mr. Stockdale
1789 · London
by [JOHNSON, SAMUEL.]
London: Elliot & Kay, and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, 1789. Second edition; first translated into English, by Johnson, in 1735 (his first book), 8vo, pp. [4], 500, [2] ads; bound without the half-title mid-19th century green cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine; spine browned and with cracks at extremities, otherwise good and sound. The preface is by George Gleig (1753-1840) which is "not devoid of interest. In it he condemns the 'uncommonly numerous' blunders of the printer in the 1735 version, and girds at the edition of the works of Dr. Johnson which was edited by Sir John Hawkins and John Stockdale in 13 volumes (1787)" (Courtney & Smith). Available separately at 6s. in boards, and also issued as part of The Works of Samuel Johnson by the same publishers, 1789. Courtney & Smith, p. 3-4; Chapman & Hazen, p. 165: Fleeman 35.2LV/2. (Inventory #: 23614)