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Title: Regni Dei in Terris Historia Amharicè (History of the Kingdom of God on Earth)
Author: Carolo Gulielmo Isenberg; editor Martinus Flad
Publisher: St Chrischona, Switzerland
Publication details: Dated 1893 on the title page and printed at St Chrischona in Switzerland.
Format: Vintage nineteenth-century hardcover volume.
Genre/Topic: Christianity; Bibles; Christian history; missions; Amharic-language church history.
Language: Primarily Amharic in Ethiopic script, with Latin title and prefatory material.
Country of origin: Switzerland
Physical description: Hardcover binding with a dark spine and mottled marbled paper-covered boards; interior printed in black ink on cream paper with numbered pages, section headings, and small decorative typographic ornaments.
Contents overview: Work divided into two parts, the first narrating events affecting the people of God from the Fall of Adam to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the second presenting a systematic history of the Christian church from the death of St. John to the author\'s own time.
Intended audience: Amharic-speaking readers seeking biblical and ecclesiastical history in their own language, produced within the late nineteenth-century Protestant missionary context.
Special attributes: 1893 Amharic Christian text by missionary scholar Karl Wilhelm (Carolo Gulielmo) Isenberg, revised and corrected by Martin Flad; pre-ISBN era with no ISBN, UPC, or modern barcode present.
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