Ludolf, Job. Historia Aethiopica, sive brevis & succincta descriptio regni Habessinorum vulgo Presbyteri Johannis. 168 nn. Bl. With woodcut printer mark on the title, with stitched, folded card, 8 partly folded, partly double-leaf copper engravings and two stitched tables. Title in red and black. 31.5 x 20 cm. Parchment d. C.E. (spotted, infested and thrown) hs. RSchild. Frankfurt, Joh. David Zunner, 1681. VD17 23:230532H. Streit XVI, 4654. Gay 2658. Paulitchke 1156. Griep-Luber 835. – First edition. Job Ludolf (1624-1704) was an Orientalist, politician, diplomat and the founder of Ethiopian philology. In this work he deals with his language, culture, tradition and landscape studies of Ethiopia. – Without the stinged portrait. Stock and finger stained, paper-related slightly tanned otherwise good specimen.