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PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco). ESMERALDO de Situ Orbis. Lisboa. 1954. - PEREIRA (Duarte Pacheco) ESMERALDO de Situ Orbis . 3.ª edição. Introdução e Anotações Históricas por Damião Peres. Lisboa: Academia Portuguesa de História, 1954. XXX, [2], 238, [2] pp.; 265 mm. This is the third edition of the text, following those of Raphael Eduardo de Azevedo Basto (1892) and Augusto Epifânio da Silva Dias (1905), published by the Portuguese Academy of History with an introduction and historical annotations by Damião Peres. The text was established by João Franco Machado, with modernized spelling and variants of obscure passages in footnotes, and the volume concludes with an index of names. Damião Peres' introduction includes a biography of Duarte Pacheco Pereira, and the historical notes discuss the title of the work, the date of its writing, and Esmeraldo as a roadmap and book of cosmography. The work was written between 1505 and 1508 and remained incomplete, as only the first three and part of the fourth of the five planned books were written. The text is known from two 18th-century copies, one in the Public Library and District Archive of Évora and the other in the National Library of Lisbon. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate