PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- Wunderliche und Merkwürdige | Reisen FERDINAND MENDEZ PINTO, | Welche er innerhalb ein und zwanzig, Jahren | durch Europa, Asia, unf Africa, und deren König- | reiche und Länder; als Abyssina, China, Japon, Tartarey, Siam, | Calaminham, Pegu, Martabane, Bengale, Brama, Ormus, | Batas, Queda, Aru, Pan, Ainan, Calempluy, Cau- | chenchina, und andere Oerterverrichtet...- Amsterdam: bey Heinrich und Dietrich Boom, 1671.- [8], 392 [i.e. 390], [1, 1 br.] p.: il.; 20 cm.- E. First German edition of the famous travel book by Fernão Mendes Pinto (1510/14-1583), a famous traveler and adventurer, born in Montemor-o-Velho. Fernão Mendes left for India in 1537, having remained in the East for about 21 years. The “Pilgrimage”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Friar Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. Illustrated edition with an allegorical frontispiece (integrated in the first booklet) and 11 copperplate engravings, printed separately, correctly placed, according to the respective pagination. Of these, seven were imported from the Dutch edition of 1652 and four were expressly engraved for the present edition. The 1652 edition also does not include the chapters referring to Saint Francis Xavier, which were not well accepted in the Netherlands, at the time predominantly Calvinist. Paging error from p. 73 (wrongly 75) to the end. Minor marginal restorations on the first six leaves and on leaves Z2, Aa2 and Zz1. Otherwise a slightly cropped but very clean copy. Bound from the 20th century, full of tobacco shagreen with blind tooling decoration on the covers. Cordier, BJ, 463. Cordier, BS, 111. Reiss & Auvermann, 675. Leite de Faria does not refere.