PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- THE | VOYAGES | AND | ADVENTURES, | OF | Fernand Mendez Pinto, | A Portugal: During ...

PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- THE | VOYAGES | AND | ADVENTURES, | OF | Fernand Mendez Pinto, | A Portugal: During his | TRAVELS | for the space of one and twenty years in | The Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin- | china, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a | great part of the East- Indies. | With a Relation and Description of most of the Places | thereof; their Religion, Laws, Riches, Customs, and | Government in the time of Peace and War. | Where he five times suffered Shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, | and thirteen times made a Slave...- London: Printed by J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, 1663.- [14], 326 (i.e. 318) p.; 30 cm.- E.
Second edition in English (the first is from 1653) of the famous travel book by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), a famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho. Fernão Mendes left for India in 1537, having remained in the East for about 21 years. The “Pilgrimage”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Fr. Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Paging error from p. 232 (wrongly 240) to the end. Copy slightly handled, with browning, sometimes strong and other minor stains; third folio bound before second. Title page and last three pages with the inner margin restored (reconstructed). It is, however, complete and solid. Binding from the 20th century, with double blind tooling rectangles and inlays, on the covers, and gold-closed panels on the spine (slightly worn joints). Palau, 163209. Leite de Faria, 40-2. Library of King D. Manuel II, refers only to the 1653 edition (962). Cordier (BJ), 40 and (BI), 113. Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 671 (same copy).