8vo, full contemporary calf, hinges tender but holding, traces of title to panel on spine, leaves very clean, later signatures of ''E. S. Prideaux Brune'' and ''Charles Prideaux Brune, Place Library'' of Prideaux Place, Cornwall to front paste-down. A first edition of this book which promotes the independence of the Ethiopian church from the claims of the Holy See. The abbreviated title continues ".. in their true Light an Epitome of the Dominican History of that Church and Account of the Practices of and Conviction of Maria of the Annunciation the famous Nun of Lisbon"