CORSO2 Cortesao, Armando ed: THE SUMA ORIENTAL OF TOME PIRES AND THE BOOK OF FRANCISCO RODRIGUES. Hakluyt Society 2nd Series No. LXXXIX. Delhi, 2005. xciv, 578 pp. B/w illustrations and maps. 2 folding maps in pockets. 2 vols. 22x15 cm. Cloth. GBP 45.00 The full title reads: 'The Suma Oriental of Tome Pires; An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, Written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515 and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues Pilot-Major of the Armada That Discovered Banda and the Moluccas: Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in the East before 1515'. Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliotheque de la Chambre des Deputes, Paris.' Two-volume reprint of the 1944 Hakluyt Society edition. Subjects: Foreigners in Asia Foreigners in Item 244 in List 213. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?c/CORSO2.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |