CAVAZZI DA MONTECUCCOLO, Pe. Giovanni Antonio, O.F.M. Cap.- ISTORICA | DESCRIZIONE | DÉ TRÉ REGNI | CONGO, MATAMBA, | ET ANGOLA | SITVATI NELL' | ETIOPIA INFERIORE OCCIDENTALE | E DELLE | MISSIONI APOSTOLICHE | Esercitateui da Religiosi Capuccini, | Accuratamente compilata dal | P. GIO ANTONIO CAVAZZI DA MONTECVCCOLO | SACERDOTE CAPUCCINO | IL QVALE VI FV PREFETTO | E nel presente stile ridotta dal | P. FORTUNATO ALAMANDINI | DA BOLOGNA | Predicatore dell'istesso Ordine.- In Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1687.- [16], 933, [1] p.: il.; 29 cm.- E. Original edition of the work of the Italian missionary Giovanni Antonio Cavazzi (1621-1678), completed in 1670 and published posthumously, compiled and ordered by the Capuchin Fortunato Alamandini, who took the initiative to have eight more engravings made to complete the ones Cavazzi had commissioned. Giovanni Antonio tells us about his travels through the three kingdoms of Congo, Matamba and Angola, between 1654 and 1667, during which he met Queen Jinga and even presided over her Christian funeral in 1663 (illustration p. 718). The edition is illustrated with an allegorical cover, a folding map of the Kingdom of Congo and Angola, nine separate engravings (eight full-page and one fold-out) and 40 illustrations along with the text, also engraved in intaglio. Copy with some browning and signs of use; the engravings separately, less fresh and without sound, with some imperfections, handling and restorations (number 6 with a small support failure on the inner margin). Binding of the period, full parchment, with some wear, preserving the original endpapers. Provenance: auction nº 35, Silva’s / Pedro de Azevedo, March 2000, lot nº 200 (same copy). Brunet, I, col. 1699. Sabin, 11592. Auvermann, 255.