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ALBUQUERQUE (Luís Mendonça de). O LIVRO de Marinharia de André Pires. Lisboa. 1963. - ALBUQUERQUE (Luís Mendonça de) O LIVRO de Marinharia de André Pires . Introduction by Armando Cortesão. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963. 232, [4] pp.: il.; 280 mm. First complete edition of the manuscript known as the Book of Seamanship by André Pires, one of the rare Portuguese seamanship books of the 16th century, preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Ms. Portugais 40). Published with a study by Luís de Albuquerque, followed by the manuscript text, and with an English introduction by Armando Cortesão. The nautical books were compilations by pilots containing cosmographic and solar data, declination tables, regulations, and sailing directions. André Pires's book, of which the pilot is believed to have written only a small part, includes solar tables, regulations for determining latitude by observing the meridian of the Sun and the North Star, questions and answers on elementary cosmography, sailing directions, and a section on the ”Moorish cross-staff” ( kamal ). The text is accompanied by a version in modern Portuguese. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate