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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. hardback, 4to, xvi,318pp, clean and tight, no inscriptions, brown cloth gilt, Very Good / no dustwrapper. ISBN: 0712903771.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly .

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Cover shows very minor signs of use, but is unmarked and undamaged. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Overall, very sound and presentable. Size: 22.8 x 15.1 x 1.9 cm. 174 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Asia Description and travel; ISBN: 1151204579. ISBN/EAN: 9781151204578. Add. Inventory No: 241017SHY0286718.

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-piecesanddecorative 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 thePeregrinação, originally published in Lisbon in 1614. Pinto's work 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 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, it rivalled Cervantes' Don Quixote in popularity: "It is, in fact, an exotic and imaginative composite of fact and fiction, at once a picaresque prose epic and an authentic picture of sixteenth-century Asia." (Rebecca D. Catz, The Travels of Mendes Pinto, 15). Hill 1146; Cordier, Japonica, 40, Sinica, 2068-2069; Lust 346; Wing M1706.