PINTO, Fernão Mendes.- HISTORIA | ORIENTAL | DE LAS PEREGRINACIONES | DE FERNAN MENDEZ PINTO | PORTVGVEZ, ADONDE SE ESCRIVEN MUCHAS, Y | muy estrañas cosas que vio, y oyó en los Reynos de la China, Tartaria, Sornao, que | vulgarmente se llama Siam, Calamiñam, Peguu, Martauan, y otros muchos | de auellas partes Orientales, de que en estas nuestras de Occi- | dente ay muy poca, o ninguna noticia. | ... | TRADVZIDO DE PORTVGVES EN CASTELLANO POR EL | Licenciado Francisco de Herrera Maldonado...-En Valencia: En casa de los herderos de Chrysostomo Garriz, por Bernardo Nogues, 1645.- [24], 482, [9, 1 br.] p.; 29 cm.- E. Third Spanish edition of “Peregrinação”, published before the second Portuguese edition, printed in Lisbon, in 1678 (the first two Spanish editions were published in Madrid, in 1620 and 1627). Fernão Mendes (1510/14-1583) left for India in 1537, having stayed in the East for around 21 years. The “Pilgrimage”, a fantastic account of his troubled adventures, was originally published on the initiative of Fr. Belchior Faria, 31 years after his death (Lisbon, 1614), from the original manuscript bequeathed by the author to Casa Pia dos Penitentes. The first three preliminary pages correspond to the title page, licenses and dedication. In the fourth begins the «Apologia en favor de Fernan Mendes Pinto, y desta Historia Oriental», authored by the translator, Francisco de Herrera, and extending over 16 pages. Then the «Catalogo de los avtores qve han escrito de las Indias Orientales, Iapon, y China, y de sus situaciones, nauegacion, y conquistas». The work begins in the following. In the end, there is the «Tabla de los capitulos...» and, on the last page (with a blank verso), the colophon. Slightly handled copy, with slight browning and occasional stains; outer margin of the first and last two leaves with some restorations, without affecting the text; some inscriptions of ownership, faded, on the title page. Contemporary binding, full flexible parchment, a little worn, with new endpapers and bindings. Inocencio, II, p. 289. Samodaes, 2074. Palau, 163204. Leite de Faria, 27-4.