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Esmeraldo de situ orbis

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Title Esmeraldo de situ orbis / by Duarte Pacheco Perira
edited by George H.T. Kimble.
Publisher London : Routledge
Creation Date 2016
Notes First published by Ashgate Pub.
Reprinted from the 1937 edition.
"Select bibliography": p. [xxxiii]-xxxv.
English
Content chapter Prologue: The beginning of the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis -- chapter The First Book, with a description of the greater circles and property of the earth -- chapter The Second Book, describing the discoveries of King Afonso V of Portugal -- chapter The Third Book, concerning the discoveries of King John II of Portugal -- chapter The Fourth Book, containing the discoveries of King Manuel of Portugal -- chapter I The Senegal-Niger-Nile controversy -- chapter II “There are other snakes a quarter of a league long -- chapter III The silent Barter -- chapter IV Note on the Map to illustrate the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis.
Series Works issued by the Hakluyt Society
2nd ser., no. 79
Extent xxxv, 193 p. : ill., maps.
Language English
National Library system number 997010705150605171
MARC RECORDS
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