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MENDES PINTO (FERNANDO)
The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto... 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, J. Macock, for Henry Herringhman, 1663

1 February 2017, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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MENDES PINTO (FERNANDO)

The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto... 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, second edition in English, translated by Henry Cogan, small piece of blank upper margin of title cut away, contemporary calf, rebacked and restored preserving original spine [ESTC R221803; Cordier Japonica 40; Cordier Indosinica 113; Cordier Sinica 2069; cf. Löwendahl 104, first English edition; Wing M1706], small folio (290 x 180mm.), J. Macock, for Henry Herringhman, 1663

Footnotes

An important early source for the East Indies and Asia first published in Lisbon in 1614.

Provenance: "1801. Partridge Library", inscription on title (partly torn away from blank upper margin); D.G. Mackenzie, bookplate.

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