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ESCALANTE (Bernardino de). DISCOURSE of the Navigation Which the Portugales doe Make to.. the East. Amsterdam, New York. 1973. - ESCALANTE (Bernardino de) DISCOURSE of the Navigation Which the Portugales doe Make to.. the East . London, 1579. Amsterdam, New York: Da Capo Press; Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, 1973. [2], 47 ff.; 200 mm. This is a facsimile reprint of the 1579 English translation of Bernardino de Escalante's Discurso de la navegación que los portugueses hazen a los reinos y provincias del Oriente . The translation, made from Spanish by John Frampton, was printed in London by Thomas Dawson under the title A discourse of the navigation which the Portugales doe make to the realmes and provinces of the east parts of the worlde , and the facsimile reproduces the copy held by the British Museum. Bernardino de Escalante (Laredo, c. 1537; after 1605) was a soldier and clergyman, fought in Flanders between 1555 and 1558, and was a commissioner of the Holy Office in Galicia. The Discourse , printed in Seville in 1577, was his first book and, according to Donald F. Lach, the second European book dedicated primarily to China, after Gaspar da Cruz's Treatise (1569). Escalante never went to China. The first chapters deal with Portuguese explorations as far as Southeast Asia, and the rest with China, based on Portuguese sources such as Gaspar da Cruz's Treatise , João de Barros's Third Decade of Asia , and information from Portuguese merchants. The book served as the main source for Juan González de Mendoza's Historia (1585), which for decades was the European reference on China. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate