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. / Translated from the Portuguese ms in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des députés, Paris, and edited by Armando Cortesão.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pires, Tomé, approximately 1468-approximately 1540.

Contributor:

• Cortesão, Armando, 1891-1977, editor, translator.
• Rodrigues, Francisco, active 1513.

Series:

• Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 89-90.
• Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; Second series, no. 89-90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Pilot guides--East Asia.
• Pilot guides.
• East Asia.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : XLII plates (part folded; including frontispieces, maps, facsimiles) 2 folded maps (in pockets) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : The Hakluyt Society, 1944.

Contents:

• I. The Suma oriental of Tomé Pires, books 1-5.
• II. The Suma oriental, book 6. The book of Francisco Rodrigues. Original Portuguese texts. Bibliography (p. 533-540)

Notes:

Paged continuously.

Related Work:

Rodrigues, Francisco, active 1513. Livro de Francisco Rodrigues.

OCLC:

10870283