The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal: during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies. . With a relation and description of most of the places thereof; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in the time of peace and war. Where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave. Written originally
Fernão Mendes Pinto (d.1583)
Category
Books
Date
1663
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3015013
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],326 p. fol. Former shelfmark: F.h.4. Inscribed on front flyleaf: B.6. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate with motto "Arcui meo non confido", lettered: "John Wilkes, Esq." [i.e. John Wilkes, politician and statesman (1727-97)]. Partially covered by nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate: Calke Abbey library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)]. Binding: Seventeenth-century[?] blind panelled sprinkled calf, gilt gauffered edges. Five raised cords, gilt tooling on spine. Spine label missing. Edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Fernão Mendes Pinto (d.1583) Henry Cogan