L'Abyssinie. Son histoire naturelle, politique et religieuse depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'à la chute de Théodoros. Ouvrage dédié à son éminence Mgr le cardinal Donnet, archévêque de Bordeaux, par M. l'abbé Pougeois, curé de Bourron

First edition, illustrated with a folding map at the end of the volume (see Fumagalli 730, and Gay, 2674bis (collation of the first two parts only: 292 pp.). 

The third part of this history of the "Ethiopia of the Ancients" is devoted to Christianity, the religion most widely practised in Abyssinia.

Occasional light foxing, chiefly affecting the folding map.

Half blue shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands gilt with dotted tooling and decorated with double gilt panels, slight rubbing to the spine, dark navy percaline boards framed with blind fillets, a small loss of percaline at the foot of the upper board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.