First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive they all marched off to

they all marched off to war as planned

5 in the UK

This nice example of early Sydney printing reveals political tensions in an expanding Australian colony

Slightly trimmed with minor loss of text to the margin of the third leaf (second page of preface)

First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive they all marched off toThe voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East Indies. With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times