The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam,

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With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave : written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent . London : Printed by J. Macock, and are to be sold by Henry Herringman, at the Sign of the Blew-Anchor, in the lower-walk of the New Exchange, 1663. Small folio, panelled calf ruled in gilt, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and ornament; pp [xiv], 326; woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials; title page with some light stains, expertly repaired tear at bottom edge and old wet stamp of the Board of Trade Library; very occasional marginal spotting, else clean and crisp throughout. The second English edition of Henry Cogan s translation of the Peregrinação , originally published in Lisbon in 1614. Pinto s work, first published more than 30 years after his death, is a narrative of his two-decade voyage which commenced in Portugal in 1537 in a fleet under the command of the son of Vasco da Gama, and ended with his return in 1558. It contains some of the earliest eyewitness accounts by a Westerner of the Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin-China, China and Japan. Indeed, Pinto claimed to be the first European to set foot on Japanese soil. Pinto was admitted to the Society of Jesus in 1554. A close

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