First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive This nice example of early

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

Books of hours were personal prayer books used for daily contemplation and prayer

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

1840–1880 containing c50 pages of original manuscripts

First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive This nice example of earlyThe 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