TELES, Pe. Baltasar, S.J.- HISTORIA | GERAL | DE ETHIOPIA | A | ALTA, | OV | PRESTE IOAM, | E DO QVE NELLA OBRÁRAM | OS | PADRES DA COMPANHIA | DE IESVS: | COMPOSTA NA MESMA | ETHIOPIA, | PELO PADRE MANOEL D'ALMEYDA, NATVRAL DE VIZEV, | PROVINCIAL, E VISITADOR, QVE FOY NA INDIA. | ABREVIADA COM NOVA RELEYÇAM, E METHODO, | PELO PADRE BALTHEZAR TELLEZ, NATVRAL DE LISBOA, | AMBOS DA MESMA COMPANHIA.- Em Coimbra: Na Officina de Manoel Dias, 1660.- [38], 736, [4] p.: 1 frontispício gravado, 1 mapa desdobr., 1 mapa; 28 cm.- E. First edition of a classic work that assumes great relevance in the panorama of the bibliography of the discoveries and missionary activity of the Society of Jesus, providing precious ethnographic, geographical, topographical, historical, scientific information, etc. Father Baltasar Teles (1596-1675), born in Lisbon, Jesuit and chronicler of the order, was a professor at the colleges of Évora, Coimbra, Braga and Lisbon (St. Antão College), of which he was rector. Copy with the following composition: half-title, allegorical frontispiece, title page, approve (2 f.), warnings about this map (the folding map of the lands and kingdoms of the Abyssinian Empire is pasted on the outer margin), commission, dedication, prologue to the reader ( 2f., having on the verso of the second page the “primeyra protestaçam do autor”), preface by the author, antidoron or remuneration offered to the reader (4 f.), poetry by Friar André Cardoso, letter from Friar Afonso Mendes (5 f.); the text follows, from p. 1 to 708. In the end, the multiplication table (pages 709 to 736). The copy lacks the last unnumbered sheet, which should contain, on the front, the “ultima protestaçam do autor” and on the verso, the errata. Copy carefully treated, washed, reglued and rebound, with occasional minor restorations. The original contemporary binding, full sheepskin, was reused and redone, with new endpapers. Samodães, 3338. Sommervogel, VII, 1909-1910. Arouca, T 35.