First English edition "The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto" London 1653 - China, India, Ethiopia archive and outlawed hacking and handball

and outlawed hacking and handball (unlike the rival Rugby School rules)

-Bound in contemporary calf (rebacked

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

they all marched off to war as planned

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 and outlawed hacking and handballThe 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