PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- PEREGRINAÇAM | DE | FERNAM MENDEZ | PINTO, E POR ELLE ESCRITA: | QVE CONSTA DE MVITAS, E ...

PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- PEREGRINAÇAM | DE | FERNAM MENDEZ | PINTO, E POR ELLE ESCRITA: | QVE CONSTA DE MVITAS, E MVITO | estranhas cousas que vio, & ouvio no Reyno da | China, no de Tartaria, no de Pegú, no de Mar- | tavão, & em outros muitos Reynos, & senho- | rios das partes Orientais, de que nestas nos- | sas do Occidente ha muyto pouca, ou ne- | nhüa noticia.- Em Lisboa: Na Officina de Antonio Craesbeeck de Mello, 1678.- [4], 145 [i. é 445] p.; 29 cm.- E., Second Portuguese edition of the famous travel book, rarer than the first, with considerably fewer copies being known. Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho, left for India in 1537, having stayed in the East for about 21 years. The “Peregrinação”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Fr. Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death, from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Cropped, stained and handled copy (paper a little fragile), with some foxing and restorations, mostly marginal, but affecting the text in sections Y, Z and AA, in a total of 10 sheets; last sheet (from the Index), with blank verso, facsimile on old paper; occasional ink stains. Stamp of Quinta das Lágrimas on the title page and 17. Interesting contemporary binding, made fully of sheepskin, recovered, with blind decoration on the covers, with new endpapers and a protective case. Edition not mentioned in the main consulted catalogues, namely, Samodães, Ameal, Palha, Ávila Perez, etc. Inocêncio, II, p. 288. Leite de Faria, 2 (with detailed description). Reiss & Auvermann (Auction 40), 644. Arouca, P 183.