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Author Pires, Tomé, approximately 1468-approximately 1540.

Title The Suma oriental of Tomé 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, rutter of a voyage in the Red sea, nautical rules, almanack and maps, written and drawn in the East before 1515. Volume I / edited by Armando Cortesão
Published Surrey : Ashgate, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xcvi, 228 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second series ; no. 89
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 89.
Contents Cover; I. TOME PIRES' LETTER TO AFONSO DE ALBURQUERQUE; CONTENTS; VOL. I; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS; VOL. I; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION:; THE PARIS CODEX; II. TEXT OF FRANCISCO RODRIGUES' BOOK; III. RODRIGUES' MAP OF THE WEST COAST OF EUROPE, ETC.; BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON TOME PIRES; IV. SUMA ORIENTAL, TEXT IN LISBON AND PARIS MSS; V. RODRIGUES' DRAWING OF ALOR; THE SUMA ORIENTAL; THE PILOT AND CARTOGRAPHER FRANCISCO RODRIGUES; VI. RODRIGUES' VOYAGE TO THE SPICE ISLANDS; VII. RODRIGUES' VOYAGE IN THE RED SEA; THE BOOK OF FRANCISCO RODRIGUES
Viii. rodrigues' drawing of sukurix. rodrigues' drawings of adunare; the suma oriental of tome pires; preface; first book -- egypt to cambay:; egypt to ormuz; xi. rodrigues' map of east coast of africa etc.; xii. rodrigues' map of n.e. coast of africa etc.; ormuz; persia; nodhakis; rajputs; cambay; second book -- cambay to ceylon:; deccan; xiii. the west coast of india according to pires; xiv. rodrigues' map of the west coast of india, etc.; goa; kanaka; narsinga; malabar; ceylon; third book -- bengal to indo china:; bengal; xv. rodrigues' map of ceylon, malacca, etc
Xvi. rodrigues' map of the bay of bengalarakan; xvii. rodrigues' map of the malay peninsula etc.; xviii. rodrigues' map of n.e. coast of sumatra, etc.; pegu; siam; burma; cambodia; champa; xix. rodrigues' sketch of the gulf of tongking; xx. rodrigues' sketch of south coast of china, etc.; cochin china; fourth book -- china to borneo:; china; xxi. rodrigues' sketch of the canton river, etc.; xxii. rodrigues' sketch of n.e. coast of china etc.; liu kiu; xxiii. rodrigues' sketch of formosa; xxiv. rodrigues' map of sumatra, java, etc.; japan; borneo; philippines; fifth book -- china to borneo
Sumatrajava; south-eastern islands; banda, ceram, amboina; xxvi. rodrigues' map of borneo, bali, etc.; xxvii. rodrigues' map of the spice islands, etc.; moluccas; central islands; xxv. ensemble of three of rodrigues' drawings of sumbawa, etc
Summary Annotation Translated from the Portuguese MS in the BibliothÈque de la Chambre des DeputÉs, Paris. Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 90) is continuous. First published: 1944
Notes English
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Subject Pilot guides -- East Asia
TRAVEL -- Asia -- General.
Pilot guides
Travel
SUBJECT East Asia -- Description and travel
Subject East Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Cortesão, Armando, 1891-1977.
Rodrigues, Francisco, active 1513. Livro de Francisco Rodrigues
ISBN 9781409414568
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