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)

1840–1880 containing c50 pages of original manuscripts

and “The whole book of Psalms” - 1707

This nice example of early Sydney printing reveals political tensions in an expanding Australian colony

they all marched off to war as planned

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