Published in 1735, this first edition of Samuel Johnson&rsquo;s translation of Portuguese Jesuit Jer&oacute;nimo Lobo&rsquo;s &quot;A Voyage to Abyssinia&quot; is a harrowing account, both &ldquo;curious and entertaining,&rdquo; of Lobo&rsquo;s misadventures in an effort to convert Abyssinians to orthodox Catholicism.<br /><br />This 17th-century work is a unique work of both travel and religious writing where Father Lobo describes the nine years he spent in Abyssinia as a missionary.