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PIRES (Tomé) & RODRIGUES (Francisco). THE SUMA ORIENTAL of Tomé Pires and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues. London: Hakluyt Society, 1944. - PIRES (Tomé), RODRIGUES (Francisco) 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. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1944. 2 v.: il., mapas; 225 mm. Publisher's cloth bindings. Hakluyt Society edition bringing together two fundamental documents for the knowledge of the East in the early sixteenth century. The Suma Oriental by Tomé Pires (c. 1465-c. 1540), Portuguese apothecary and factor who was in Malacca and India between 1512 and 1515, is the most comprehensive description of the East from that period, covering from Arabia to Japan. The Book of Francisco Rodrigues gathers the rutters, nautical rules, almanac and maps of the Portuguese cartographer Francisco Rodrigues, who sailed the Red Sea and recorded the East before 1515. Translation of the Portuguese manuscript in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Députés in Paris, established by Armando Cortesão. An indispensable reference work for the study of Portuguese expansion in the East.