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PINTO (Fernão Mendes). De Wonderlyke Reizen van Fernando Mendez Pinto. Amsterdam. 1652. - PINTO (Fernão Mendes) De Wonderlyke Reizen van Fernando Mendez Pinto . Vertaalt door J. H. Glazemaker; met kopere Platen. Amsterdam: Voor Jan Rieuwertsz. en Jan Hendriksz., Boekverkopers, 1652. portada, [6], 280 pp.; 210 mm. First Dutch edition of Fernão Mendes Pinto's Peregrination , in the translation by Jan Hendriksz Glazemaker (1619/20-1682), the most prolific Dutch translator of his time, later known above all for his versions of Descartes and Spinoza. A relevant bibliographical fact, established by studies specifically dedicated to this translation, is that Glazemaker did not translate the text directly from Portuguese, but from the French version by Bernard Figuier, Les Voyages advantureux de Fernand Mendez Pinto (Paris, 1628), similarly to what had also happened with the Spanish translation by Herrera Maldonado. The account of Mendes Pinto's twenty-one travels through Asia – India, China, Japan, Siam, Pegu, among other kingdoms – continued, in the mid-17th century, to fuel the same fascination in Holland that it had already aroused in Spain and France. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate