CARVALHO, Antonio Nunes de (ed.) Roteiro em que se contem a viagem que fizeram os Portuguezes no anno de 1541, partindo da nobre Cidade de Goa atee Soez, que he no fim, e stremidade do Mar Roxo. Com o sitio, e pintura de todo o Syno Arabico. Por Dom Ioam de Castro . . tirado a luz pela primeira vez do manuscrito original, e acrescentado com o Itinerarium Maris Rubri, e o retrato do author, etc., etc. Paris Baudry, na Officina Typographica de Casimir 1833
8vo. (2) ff., liv, IX, 334 pp., (1) f. With 2 engraved portraits & 1 folding facsimile chart. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (foot of spine worn).
First edition, describing one of the most famous Portuguese voyages to the East. The . . Roteiros . . are decked out with no literary graces. (Castro) wrote, he said, for seamen, not for ladies and gallants. Yet the scientific curiosity and enthusiasm of this keen-eyed, broad-minded observer give his descriptions force and truth, the same practical lucidity that marks his letters . . . (Bell, Portuguese Literature, pp. 227-8). Nunes de Carvalho copied the manuscript by João de Castro from the original in the British Museum (Cotton Collection Tiberius D, IX). It is said to have been purchased by Sir Walter Raleigh for £60, and was translated and printed in 1625 in Purchas's Pilgrims and later in French in the Histoire Générale des Voyages by Abbé Prévost. Lacks the atlas which is sometimes present. Some slight marginal worming just touching a few letters of text. Tear repaired in facsimile chart. Azevedo-Samodães 681. Avila Perez 1562, rara. Welsh 4780. Ramos, Edição da língua portuguesa em França, 259. Scholberg, Bibliography of Goa & the Portuguese in India, DC7. De Silva, The Portuguese in Asia, 237 (note). Innocêncio III, 345, edição nítida (calling for separate atlas de 17 maps). Pinto de Mattos pp. 146 & 427, livro estimado e não vulgar. Fontoura da Costa 44D, calling for atlas with 15 maps.
£400
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