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GODINHO (Manuel). RELAÇÃO do Novo Caminho que fez por Terra, e Mar Vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663 o Padre Manoel Godinho da Companhia de Jesu. Lisboa. 1665. - GODINHO (Manuel) RELAÇÃO do Novo Caminho que fez por Terra, e Mar Vindo da India para Portugal no anno de 1663 o Padre Manoel Godinho da Companhia de Jesu . Enviado à Magestade del Rey N. S. Dom Affonso VI. Pello seu Viso-Rey António de Mello de Castro, & Estado da Índia: a Luís de Vasconcellos e Sousa Conde de Castel-Melhor. Lisboa: Na Officina de Henrique Valente de Oliveira, 1665. a4, aa2, A-L8, M4, N2; [12], 188 pp.; 185 mm. Fac-simil title page; contemporary full calf. First edition of Manuel Godinho's Account , printed by Henrique Valente de Oliveira in Lisbon in 1665, dedicated to Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor, whose coat of arms is engraved at the beginning of the dedication. Manuel Godinho (Montalvão, c. 1630-Loures, 1712), a Jesuit and novice of the Society of Jesus in Coimbra since 1645, joined the India mission. In December 1662, he departed from Bassein for Portugal, not via the usual maritime route of the India Route, but by an alternative, combined land and sea itinerary: he went through Daman and Surratt, embarked for Bandar Abbas, continued overland to Kung, then sailed to Basra and, instead of waiting for a ship to Baghdad or a caravan through the desert, he set off on horseback, accompanied by three companions and three Arabs, through Baghdad, Anna, Rahaba, Taibe, Aleppo and Alexandretta; from there he embarked for Marseille, continued overland to La Rochelle and, again by sea, arrived in Cascais in October 1663. The account, in addition to narrating the adventures of this journey, records observations on the customs of Hindus and Muslims and descriptions of the places visited, and is now recognized as a classic of 17th-century Portuguese travel literature. Godinho would later leave the Society of Jesus, becoming a secular priest. A rare work even in its original edition: in addition to this first edition of 1665, it had a second edition in Lisbon in 1842, and a modern edition, with an introduction by Augusto Reis Machado, published by the Agência Geral das Colónias in 1944, and there is also an annotated English translation, Intrepid Itinerant , published in Bombay in 1990. Very rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Barbosa, v.3, 274; Inocêncio, v.5, 442; v.16, 219; Samodães 1393