Bidspirit auctions | Ecléctica Leilões Auction Sep 25

Ecléctica Leilões, Sep 25. 100 lots, estimates 6 - 80 €.


Ecléctica Leilões - The Nuno Gorjão Henriques Library brings together one hundred lots centred on the history of Portuguese maritime expansion, with particular emphasis on chronicles and primary sources of the Discoveries: works by Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, Diogo do Couto and António Galvão, alongside nautical roteiros by D. João de Castro and Pero Lopes de Sousa. A substantial group of titles documents the Portuguese presence in the North African strongholds, from Ceuta to Arzila, Mazagão and Agadir, including reference chronicles and documentary collections. The Estado da Índia is represented through studies on Vasco da Gama, the Suma Oriental of Tomé Pires, and works by C. R. Boxer, Danvers and Whiteway. The collection is completed by colonial historiography on Angola, Cabo Verde and Guinea, notably Cadornega’s História Geral das Guerras Angolanas, Bernardo Rodrigues’s Anais de Arzila and Sena Barcelos’s Subsídios para a História de Cabo Verde e Guiné. An auction of interest to researchers and collectors of the history of Portuguese overseas expansion.

Lots in this catalog (100)