PINTO, Fernão Mendes (1509-1583). The Voyages and Adventures, of Fernand Mendez Pinto, á 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-Indiaes. With a Relation and Description of most of the Places thereof. London: printed by J. Macock for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653.
PINTO, Fernão Mendes (1509-1583). The Voyages and Adventures, of Fernand Mendez Pinto, á 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-Indiaes. With a Relation and Description of most of the Places thereof. London: printed by J. Macock for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653. 2 o (283 x 191 mm). Title printed in red and black. (Some light marginal worming.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked). Provenance : Alexander S. Finlay (bookplate). "ONE OF THE FINEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF ALL TIMES" (Howgego) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic travel account. Fernão Mendes Pinto embarked on his voyage from Portugal in 1537, in a fleet under the command of the son of Vasco da Gama, and returned 21 years later in 1558. During that time he visited Japan four times, and describes India, Abyssinia, Burma, Vietnam, China, and other places. In 1554 he joined the Society of Jesus and funded several missions in Asia, especially in Japan. Pinto claimed to have been the first European to visit Japan in 1545 (but the actual first contact was made in 1542 by Diego Zeimoto). The Peregrinaçam , first published in Lisbon in 1614, was a tremendous success and nineteen editions in six languages were published by 1700 "rivalling the popularity of Cervantes' Don Quixote . It is, in fact, an exotic and imaginative composite of fact and fiction, at once a picaresque prose epic and an authentic picture of sixteenth-century Asia" (Rebecca D. Catz, The Travels of Mendes Pinto p.15). Cordier Japonica 40; Cordier Sinica 2068; Lust 346; Wing M-1706.
PINTO, Fernão Mendes (1509-1583). The Voyages and Adventures, of Fernand Mendez Pinto, á 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-Indiaes. With a Relation and Description of most of the Places thereof. London: printed by J. Macock for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653.
PINTO, Fernão Mendes (1509-1583). The Voyages and Adventures, of Fernand Mendez Pinto, á 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-Indiaes. With a Relation and Description of most of the Places thereof. London: printed by J. Macock for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653. 2 o (283 x 191 mm). Title printed in red and black. (Some light marginal worming.) Contemporary blind-ruled calf (rebacked). Provenance : Alexander S. Finlay (bookplate). "ONE OF THE FINEST TRAVEL BOOKS OF ALL TIMES" (Howgego) FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH of this classic travel account. Fernão Mendes Pinto embarked on his voyage from Portugal in 1537, in a fleet under the command of the son of Vasco da Gama, and returned 21 years later in 1558. During that time he visited Japan four times, and describes India, Abyssinia, Burma, Vietnam, China, and other places. In 1554 he joined the Society of Jesus and funded several missions in Asia, especially in Japan. Pinto claimed to have been the first European to visit Japan in 1545 (but the actual first contact was made in 1542 by Diego Zeimoto). The Peregrinaçam , first published in Lisbon in 1614, was a tremendous success and nineteen editions in six languages were published by 1700 "rivalling the popularity of Cervantes' Don Quixote . It is, in fact, an exotic and imaginative composite of fact and fiction, at once a picaresque prose epic and an authentic picture of sixteenth-century Asia" (Rebecca D. Catz, The Travels of Mendes Pinto p.15). Cordier Japonica 40; Cordier Sinica 2068; Lust 346; Wing M-1706.
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