A Short Relation of the River Nile

Creator/Author: Jerónimo Lobo
Translator: Peter Wyche
Title: A short relation of the river Nile: of its sourse and current : of its overflowing the campagnia of Ægypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean : and of other curiosities
Date: 1669
Contributor: John Cook (former owner)
Publisher: London; Printed for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society and are to be sold at the sign of the Bell without Temple Bar
Language: English
Description: Translated from Lobo's Itinerário by Sir Peter Wyche.
Order-to-print on verso of leaf pi1: Novemb. 1668. At a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society of London for improving natural knowledg. Ordered ... Brounker Pres.
Signatures: [pi]² a⁸ (a3 and a4 signed A3 and A4 respectively) B-G⁸ (G3 missigned D3)
Headpieces.
Last leaf blank.
Includes bibliographical references in margins.
Rights: Public Domain; Public Domain
Spatial Coverage: Nile River
Short Title: A Short Relation of the River Nile
Provenance and Host Repository: John J. Burns Library at Boston College
Number of Pages: [8], 105, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Subject: 17th century; Africa; Africa, East; Date palm; Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Egypt; Mediterranean; Nile River; Prester John (Legendary character); Red Sea; Unicorns