Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto.

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Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration (leather a little dry); title in red and black (small marginal loss at bottom edge), pp. [16], 1193, [14 Table des chapitres ], [1 blank]; decorated initials; pp. 75-6 restored at bottom corner (with loss of a few letters), pale marginal water stain to last 40 or so leaves, otherwise clean and sound throughout, a very good example. The first French translation of the Peregrinação , originally published in Lisbon in 1614. Pinto s work 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 contains some of the earliest eyewitness accounts by a Westerner of the Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin-China, China and Japan. Pinto was admitted to the Society of Jesus in 1554. A close acquaintance of Francis Xavier, he contributed to various missions in Japan, a country which he visited four times during his travels. The Peregrinação was enormously successful, and by 1700 had been published in nineteen editions in six languages. According to Catz

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