
Lot 37•
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, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,000 inc. premium
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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.