Peregrinacam

A$18,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

no reyno da China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegu, no de Martavao, em outros muitos reynos y senhorios das partes Orientae Lisbon : A. Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678. Folio (330 x 225 mm), later quarter calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed), spine with gilt decoration and black morocco title-piece lettered in gilt; front pastedown with nineteenth-century collection label of Padre Manoel Candido da Costa Fortunato, Braga, and a brief note by him on the recto of the front free-endpaper; verso of free-endpaper with the ex libris of H. P. Kraus; title with early ownership inscription of António de Faria e Maya (Maia); pp. [4], 445 (last two pages of the index misnumbered 144-45); text in two columns, woodcut headpiece and tailpieces; title leaf with loss to the corners with paper restoration, following leaf re-margined, first page of the main text with marginalia and the name Pinto struck through, first few leaves with light staining at upper corners, last two leaves with bottom corners restored (not affecting text), a few leaves with insignificant water staining at fore-edge or upper margins, occasional small marks, else internally very clean; a good example with wide margins. A rare late seventeenth-century Portuguese edition of the Peregrinaçam ( Peregrinaçao ). This important account of Asia is largely based on Mendes Pinto s own observations made between 1537 and 1557. His extensive travels as a soldier, merchant, diplomat, and missionary commenced in Portugal in 1537 in a fleet

• Binding: Hardcover

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