1st Edition

The Commentaries of the Great Afonso Dalboquerque, Second Viceroy of India Volume I

Edited By Walter de Gray Birch Copyright 2010
    336 Pages
    by Hakluyt Society

    This is translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction. Continued in First Series 55, 62, and 69. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1875.

    Introduction, Chronology of Part I, Title to the Edition of 1774, etc., Epistle Dedicatory of Nicolao Pagliarini to the Marquez de Pombal, To the Reader, Epistle Dedicatory of Affonso Dalboquerque, the Younger, to the King D. Sebasti?o (originally prefixed to the Second Edition of 1576), Titles of the Chapters Contained in the First Part, Commentaries of Afonso Dalboquerque. Part I, Map of Arabia, from MS. Sloane, 197, fo. 154, Plan of Ormuz, from the same MS., fo. 156

    Biography

    Walter de Gray Birch