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PEDRO CUBERO SEBASTIAN (b.1645)
Peregrinacion del Mundo. Naples: Carlos Porsile, 1682. 4° (20 x 14.8cm.). Engraved additional title, portrait of the dedicatee. (Small holes in lower blank margins of Yy3 and 4, occasional browning.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard (lightly soiled, tears to inner pastedowns).
Second edition of the account of the first traveller "qui ait fait le tour du monde d'Occident en Orient, et en partie par terre" (Biographie Générale). The first edition was published in Madrid in 1680. Born in Spain, near Calatayud, in 1645, Cubero left Spain aged 25 and spent the next nine years journeying around the world as a missionary ("Predicador Apostolico") for the Catholic church. His wanderings took him to various European destinations, Constantinople, Moscow, Persia, Isphahan, Goa, Ceylon, Malacca, the Phillippines, China, Tartary and Mexico. Palau 65757; Sabin 17820.
Peregrinacion del Mundo. Naples: Carlos Porsile, 1682. 4° (20 x 14.8cm.). Engraved additional title, portrait of the dedicatee. (Small holes in lower blank margins of Yy3 and 4, occasional browning.) Contemporary vellum over pasteboard (lightly soiled, tears to inner pastedowns).
Second edition of the account of the first traveller "qui ait fait le tour du monde d'Occident en Orient, et en partie par terre" (Biographie Générale). The first edition was published in Madrid in 1680. Born in Spain, near Calatayud, in 1645, Cubero left Spain aged 25 and spent the next nine years journeying around the world as a missionary ("Predicador Apostolico") for the Catholic church. His wanderings took him to various European destinations, Constantinople, Moscow, Persia, Isphahan, Goa, Ceylon, Malacca, the Phillippines, China, Tartary and Mexico. Palau 65757; Sabin 17820.