Lot 261
Voyages.- Pinto (Fernão Mendes) The Voyages and Adventures, first English edition, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653.
Hammer Price: £1,300
Description
Voyages.- Pinto (Fernão Mendes) The Voyages and Adventures, first English edition, title printed in red and black, wood-engraved head-pieces and initials, a few leaves with ink stains, 2H1 with hole with slight loss of text on verso, some light water-staining at beginning causing a few marginal holes, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, [Wing M1705], small folio, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653.
⁂ The title continues "Travels...in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchichina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies."
Provenance: Joseph Jones (bookplate).
Description
Voyages.- Pinto (Fernão Mendes) The Voyages and Adventures, first English edition, title printed in red and black, wood-engraved head-pieces and initials, a few leaves with ink stains, 2H1 with hole with slight loss of text on verso, some light water-staining at beginning causing a few marginal holes, contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, [Wing M1705], small folio, Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd, 1653.
⁂ The title continues "Travels...in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchichina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies."
Provenance: Joseph Jones (bookplate).