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ALMADA (André Álvares de). EDIÇÃO Nova do Tratado Breve dos Rios de Guiné feito pelo Capitão [...]. Lisboa. 1946. - ALMADA (André Álvares de) EDIÇÃO Nova do Tratado Breve dos Rios de Guiné feito pelo Capitão [...] . Lisboa: Governo da Colónia da Guiné, 1946. XII, 102, [6] pp.; 265 mm. New critical edition, prepared by Luís Silveira, of the Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea and Cape Verde , published under the sponsorship of the Government of the Colony of Guinea on the occasion of the 5th Centenary of the Discovery. Written in 1594 by Captain André Álvares de Almada, a native of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde, the Treatise is one of the most important and oldest ethnographic sources on the coast of Upper Guinea, between the Sanagá River and the Sant'Ana shoals, describing in detail the various African nations then known, their customs, laws, rites, wars, weapons and clothing, as well as the conditions of the ports and the trade practiced in the region. It remained unpublished until 1841, when Diogo Köpke published the first edition, more faithful to the original text than the truncated version previously published under the title Relação e Descrição de Guiné (Account and Description of Guinea) . An indispensable primary reference source for the history and ethnography of Guinea and the West African coast in the 16th and 17th centuries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate