MENDES PINTO, Fernão 
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Les voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto. Fidelement traduicts de Portugais en François par le Sieur Bernard Figuier, Gentil-homme Portugais. Et dédiez à Monseigneur le Cardinal de Richelieu. Le contenu de la présente histoire se verra à la page suivante. Paris : Mathurin Henault, 1628. Thick quarto (230 x 170 mm), contemporary full calf, boards with double-gilt rule (minor staining, one corner restored), spine in six compartments with raised bands and gilt lettering and decoration (leather a little dry); title in red and black (small marginal loss at bottom edge), pp. [16], 1193, [14 Table des chapitres], [1 blank]; decorated initials; pp. 75-6 restored at bottom corner (with loss of a few letters), pale marginal water stain to last 40 or so leaves, otherwise clean and sound throughout, a very good example. The first French translation of the Peregrinação, originally published in Lisbon in 1614. Pinto's work - 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 - contains some of the earliest eyewitness accounts by a Westerner of the Malay Peninsula, Siam, Cochin-China, China and Japan. 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). Cordier, Japonica, 37; Sinica, 2067
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