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ROTEIROS Portuguezes da Viagem de Lisboa á India nos Seculos XVI e XVII. Lisboa. 1898. - ROTEIROS Portuguezes da Viagem de Lisboa á India nos Seculos XVI e XVII . Publicados por G. Pereira. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1898. 212, [2] pp.; 250 mm. - (Quarto Centenário do Descobrimento da India). A collection of Portuguese itineraries for the India Route from the 16th and 17th centuries, compiled and published by Gabriel Pereira as a contribution from the Lisbon Geographical Society to the commemorations of the 4th Centenary of the Discovery of India (1498-1898). It brings together the itineraries of various pilots of the maritime route between Lisbon and India, including those of Vicente Rodrigues, Gaspar Manuel and Aleixo da Mota, technical navigation documents that record routes, altitudes, soundings, dangers and reference points along the voyage, constituting a fundamental primary source for the history of navigation and the India Route. A commemorative publication that serves as a reference for the study of Portuguese navigation between the metropolis and the East during the 16th and 17th centuries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate