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MOREIRA (Gaspar). LE “Livro de Marinharia” de Gaspar Moreira. Lisboa. 1977. - MOREIRA (Gaspar) LE “Livro de Marinharia” de Gaspar Moreira . introduction et notes par Léon Bourdon et Luís de Albuquerque. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1977. 240 pp.: il.; 290 mm. Twentieth volume of the collection of Portuguese cartography and nautical texts published by the Overseas Research Board, under the scientific direction of Luís de Albuquerque, which since 1963 had been publishing, for the first time, the rare known books on seamanship, manuals compiled by Portuguese pilots with cosmographic data, solar declination tables, regulations and navigation itineraries. Gaspar Moreira's Book of Seamanship brings together documentation and nautical material from the Age of Discoveries, compiled in the 18th century, now published with an introduction and notes by Léon Bourdon, a French Hispanist and Lusitanist specializing in Portuguese maritime expansion, and Luís de Albuquerque, the scientific curator of the collection. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate