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The Voyages and Adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, The Portuguese
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto; Arminius Vambery (introduction); Henry Cogan (translator)
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1891
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Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. An abridged and illustrated edition. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Crown octavo. xxxii 464pp. Complete with 6 folding plates. Some foxing to prelims. Armorial bookplate on front paste-down. There is some soiling to the front and backcover. Closed tear at head of spine and fading to spine. Binding is firm. An abridg…ement of the Cogan translation of 1663. The Adventure Series #7.
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Softcover. Condition: 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: 97811…51204578. Add. Inventory No: 241017SHY0286718.
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Published by Macock, London, 1663
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Seller: Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Armadale, VIC, AustraliaDouglas Stewart Fine Books
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Add to basketWith 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 Ph…ilip 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, first published more than 30 years after his death, 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). Pinto's voyages took place prior to the colonisation of the Philippine Islands by the Spanish, which began in 1565 with Lezgapi's settlement in Cebu. but his narrative contains brief mentions of earlier Spanish expeditionssuch as those led by Ruy López de Villalobos and García Jofre de Loaísa, whose ships made landfall on several islands including Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. There are alsooccasional references to encounters with merchant-mariners from Luzon (Luções in Portuguese) in Malacca and other places, who were conducting overseas commerce in the region long before the arrival of the Spanish. He also describes being shipwrecked in the waters north of Luzon. However, it should be noted that the validity of much of Pinto's narrative has long been the subject of conjecture: it is often perceived (cf. Catz's comment above) as a tapestry of accounts woven together from disparate sources, some more reliable than others. Hill 1146; Cordier, Japonica, 40, Sinica, 2068-2069; Lust 346; Wing M1706.
