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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