Bidspirit auction | PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco). ESMERALDO de

PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco). ESMERALDO de Situ Orbis. Bissau. 1956. - PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco) ESMERALDO de Situ Orbis . Côte occidentale d' Afrique du Sud Marocain au Gabon. [Trad. Raymond Mauny]. Bissau: Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa, 1956. 228 pp.: il.; 235 mm. Bilingual edition, Portuguese and French, of the part of Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis concerning the West African coast, from southern Morocco to Gabon, established and translated by the French Africanist Raymond Mauny, with introduction and critical notes. Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis , composed by Duarte Pacheco Pereira between 1505 and 1508, is one of the most important Portuguese nautical geography treatises of the 16th century, describing with great accuracy the coasts of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, known to the Portuguese at the beginning of the 16th century. It remained unpublished until the end of the 19th century, and has since seen several critical editions, including the English edition by G.H.T. Kimble (Hakluyt Society, 1937) and the present edition by Raymond Mauny, specifically focused on the coastal stretch between southern Morocco and Gabon. Published as issue number 19 of the Publications of the Center for Studies of Portuguese Guinea, it is a reference work for the study of the historical geography of the West African coast and the sources of the Portuguese expansion of the 16th century. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate