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COSTA (A. Fontoura da). A MARINHARIA dos Descobrimentos. Lisboa. 1933. - COSTA (A. Fontoura da) A MARINHARIA dos Descobrimentos . Lisboa: Imprensa da Armada, 1933. 512, XII pp.: il.; 240 mm. First edition, limited to only 250 copies, printed by the Navy Press. The work had been published in installments, with the same pagination, in the Annals of the Naval Military Club between 1933 and 1934, and in the latter year it was compiled into this volume, which was awarded the Admiral Augusto Osório Prize of 1934. The Seamanship of the Discoveries is one of the most complete studies on Portuguese nautical art during the Age of Discoveries, encompassing navigational instruments, regulations, sailing directions, and charts, and remains an indispensable reference work for the history of Portuguese navigation and cartography. It would see a second edition, corrected and slightly expanded, in 1939, a third in 1960, and a fourth in 1983. Rare, given the small print run. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate