Bidspirit auction | RELAÇÃO das Plantas, & Dezcripsões

RELAÇÃO das Plantas, & Dezcripsões de todas as Fortalezas, Cidades, e Povoações que os Portugueses tem no Estado da india Oriental. Lisboa. 1936. - RELAÇÃO das Plantas, & Dezcripsões de todas as Fortalezas, Cidades, e Povoações que os Portugueses tem no Estado da india Oriental . Lisboa: Biblioteca Nacional, 1936. [4], XX, 52 pp.: il.; 260 mm. Published by the National Library of Lisbon, this edition contains a 17th-century codex with descriptions and plans of Portuguese fortresses, cities, and towns in the State of India. It bears witness to the textual and iconographic tradition of the Book of Plans of All the Fortresses, Cities, and Towns of the State of East India , a work commissioned by royal order to the viceroy, Count of Linhares, with text by the chronicler António Bocarro and plans by Pedro Barreto de Resende, completed in 1635. A primary source for the study of cartography, military architecture, and the organization of the Portuguese empire in Asia at the end of the Philippine period, recording fortifications from the east coast of Africa to the Far East, with information on their garrisons, revenues, and trade. This edition made the text and plans accessible decades before the critical edition of the Évora Codex, published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in 1992. Unusual. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate