PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- DE WONDERLYKE | REIZEN | VAN | FERNANDO MENDEZ PINTO; | Die hy de tijt van eenëntwintig Jaren in Europa, Asia en | Afrika, | in de Koninkrijken en Landen van Abbissyna, China, Iapon, Tartarien, | Siam, Calaminham, Pegu, Martabane, Bengale, Brama, Ormus, Batas, Queda, | Aru, Pan, Ainan, Calempluy, Chochinchina, en byna ontellijke | andere Landen en plaatsen gedaan heest. | [...] | Nieuwulijhs coor J. H. GLAZEMAKER, vertaalt; en met cierelyke kopere Platen vereciert.- t’Amsterdam: Voor Jan Hendriksz en Jan Rieuwertsz. Boekverkopers, 1652.- [6], 280 p.: 1 portada grav., [7] gravuras; 20 cm.- E. Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), famous traveler and adventurer, was born in Montemor-o-Velho. In 1537 he left for India, having remained in the Orient for some 21 years. The “Peregrinação”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was 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. Copy with strong browning and some handling but complete and solid of the very rare first edition in Dutch, illustrated with seven copperplate prints and an engraved frontispiece. All engravings are correctly placed, as indicated in the upper right corner. The text is almost entirely printed in Gothic characters and the chapters referring to Saint Francis Xavier, which were not well accepted in the Netherlands, a country at the time predominantly Calvinist, were removed. The scholar bibliographer Fr. Francisco Leite de Faria (The many editions of «Peregrinação» by Fernão Mendes Pinto, Lisbon, 1992, p. 91) was only able to locate one copy in Portugal (in the Jorge de Brito Collection), six in the Netherlands, one in Germany and one in the United States of America. Circular speaking ex-libris with the unidentified initials BL. Contemporary binding, fully made of rigid parchment, with the original white lined endpapers. Leite de Faria, 54-1.