PANTALEAO DE AVEYRO: Itinerario da Terra Santa e suas particularidades composto por Frey Pantaleam offerecido a Jesu Crucificado. Lisboa 1685 Third edition of the earliest Portuguese printed travel account of Greece and the Levant, the two 16th-century earlier editions are practically unobtainable. In 4to (20 × 15 cm). Contemporary full vellum, soiled with some light wear. Text clean and bright, with a very light marginal waterstain at the lower edge, mostly toward the final pages. Around twenty early marginalia in Portuguese in a few sections, mainly in the Greek Capitulo (chapter) 5, Partimos de Corfu para Candia, where the reader tried to identify the different Greek locations mentioned (Peloponneso, Sapienza, Athenas, Pathmos, Samos, Constantinopla, Hellesponto, etc.). Complete with title page bearing a woodcut crucifixion scene. 387 pp. Overall a very good copy. Pantaleão de Aveiro traveled in the Eastern Mediterranean between 1563 and 1566. In December 1563 he sailed from Venice, stopping briefly in Corfu and Zante before reaching Candia at Christmas, where he remained several days. He noted Escarpanto (Karpathos) a very rare reference to the island. His Greek section covers around 25 pages, full of information on mid-16th-century Greece, including places he did not personally visit. In early 1564 he arrived in Cyprus, where he spent several months touring the island (Paphos, Limisso, Salinas, Nicosia, etc.). More than 40 pages are dedicated to Cyprus, offering detailed descriptions and observations at the very end of Venetian rule, on the eve of the Turkish conquest. This Cypriot section is particularly valuable. By mid-summer 1564 he reached the Holy Land, where he remained for a year and a half, before returning via Cyprus in summer 1566. After another stop in Corfu, he landed in Otranto on 2 August 1566. A very fine and early travel account, and one of the very few by a Portuguese traveler, as they seldom journeyed to the Levant. Absent from all major collections.