First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive vulgo Abbisinorum sive Presbiteri Ioannis

vulgo Abbisinorum sive Presbiteri Ioannis Imperium

This nice example of early Sydney printing reveals political tensions in an expanding Australian colony

Books of hours were personal prayer books used for daily contemplation and prayer

-Bound in contemporary calf (rebacked

ESTC R24273 Wing B3675Bl

First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive vulgo Abbisinorum sive Presbiteri IoannisThe 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 time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times