Travel
PINTO, Fernando Mendez.
Les Voyages Advantureux ...
A.Cotinet & J.Roger, Paris 1645. Second French edition. Small 4to., [viii], 1020, [xii]pp., title with woodcut device, woodcut head-pieces and initials, title lightly stained and with faint contemporary inscription in gold, browned in parts, a few rust spots, cropped, contemporary mottled calf with blind-stamped device on boards, rubbed, rebacked preserving old morocco label, new endpapers.
The account of his voyages by the sixteenth century adventurer, Pinto (1509/10-1583), to Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cochin-china, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies. Blending fact with fiction, they provide a very colourful narrative of shipwrecks, captivity, slavery, etc. Palau 163206; Cordier, Japonica, 37 ; Cordier, Indosinica, 111 ; Cordier, Sinica, 2067.
Price: £ 2500
US Dollar Price: $ 4960
Stock Number: 67715