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PERES (Damião). OS MAIS Antigos Roteiros da Guiné. Lisboa. 1952. - PERES (Damião) OS MAIS Antigos Roteiros da Guiné . Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1952. XVI, 166 pp.; 265 mm. First edition of this compilation, only reissued in 1992. Damião Peres (1889-1976), historian and professor, directed the Historical Archive of Porto and the General Library of the University of Coimbra, was secretary-general of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon and the Portuguese Academy of History, and coordinated the monumental History of Portugal (1928-1954), being one of the central figures of Portuguese historiography of the Discoveries in the first half of the 20th century. This work brings together, with explanatory notes by the author, the three oldest known sailing directions of the Guinea coast, from the late 15th and early 16th centuries: the 15th-century sailing direction transcribed by Valentim Fernandes, the navigation direction of the pilot João de Lisboa, and the navigation direction extracted from Duarte Pacheco Pereira's Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis . It thus establishes fundamental texts for understanding Portuguese navigation and expansion along the West African coast. A highly regarded reference work for the history of Portuguese navigation and discoveries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate