Istorica descrizione de' tre' regni Congo, Matamba et Angola :
situati nell'Etiopia inferiore occidentale e delle missioni apostoliche esercitateui da religiosi Capuccini /
accuratamente compilata dal p. Gio. Antonio Cauazzi da Montecuccolo, sacerdote capuccino, il quale vi fu' prefetto ; e nel presente stile ridotta dal p. Fortunato Alamandini da Bologna, predicatore dell'istesso ordine.

Description

Main Author

Cavazzi, Giovanni Antonio, 1621-1678

Related Names

Monti, Giacomo, -approximately 1689, publisher.
Alamandini, Fortunato, 1636-1692, editor.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Bologna : Per Giacomo Monti, MDCLXXXVII [1687]

Subjects

Capuchins.
Capuchins > Capuchins / Early works to 1800.
Travel.
Missions.
Missions > Missions / Africa, Central > Missions / Africa, Central / Early works to 1800.
Missions > Missions / Angola > Missions / Angola / Early works to 1800.
Angola.
Africa > Africa / Kongo Kingdom.
Africa, Central.
Angola > Angola / Description and travel > Angola / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Kongo Kingdom > Kongo Kingdom / Description and travel > Kongo Kingdom / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Early works.
Engravings (prints)dzItaly > Engravings (prints)dzItaly / 17th century.

Summary

A description of western Africa, with material on the competition between the Dutch and Portuguese for bases on the coast.

Note

Includes index.
Title vignette; head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials; numerous engraved illustrations in text.
Full-page engravings signed: F. Fort.o f.f.
Frontispiece signed: F. Paul. a Lothar.a cap. sculp.
The frontispiece is included in pagination and printed on leaf pi2r.
Errata: page 933.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ [maltese cross]⁴ A-6B⁴.

Physical Description

[16], 933, [3] pages, [10] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, map ; 30 cm (fol.)

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