The Grand Peregrination; being the life and adventures of Fernao Mendes Pinto
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. Hardcover. 313p., illustrated with 16 pages of "beautiful collotypes" (b&w, kinda dim), second printing of the first issue. Hardbound in openweave orange cloth, titling in yellow, enclosed in its dust jacket. Pretty book in great shape; spine panel of dj has a nibbled top rim and panel is faintly faded, else book as a whole is totally sound, clean and unmarked.
Cat.No: 275760
Price: $18.00
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