Account of a pilgrimage to Mecca ordered by the Ottoman court to invoke divine assistance against the Christian forces in the Austro-Turkish War of... Show moreAccount of a pilgrimage to Mecca ordered by the Ottoman court to invoke divine assistance against the Christian forces in the Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18. In fact, the practical value of this pilgrimage turned out to be limited: in August that same year, Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Turks at Petrovaradin; in 1717 he recaptured Belgrade, defeating the Turkish forces with an overwhelmingly outnumbered army; in 1718 the Treaty of Passarowitz was signed, in which the Ottomans had to surrender large areas to Habsburg Empire, which now reached its greatest territorial expanse in history. - Translated into Portuguese and published by José Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas (1670-1760), the polyglot editor of numerous travel accounts and topical pamphlets. Rare; OCLC lists only two copies in America (Yale, Toronto). Final leaf loose. Anonymous. By J. F. de M. Mascarenhas. Cf. Fonseca, M.A. da. Subsidios para um diccionario de pseudonymes. Main Heritage Compact General D231 .M37 1716 Book Item-ID: i16873476 BIB-ID: 1510763 Show less
Joao de Jesus Christo. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .J63 1831 Book Item-ID: i22752316 BIB-ID: 1951271 Show moreJoao de Jesus Christo. Main Heritage Shelves General DS109 .J63 1831 Book Item-ID: i22752316 BIB-ID: 1951271 Show less
por Luis Marinho d'Azevedo ... First and only edition of this defence of Fernão de Albuquerque, a crucial source for the 1622 siege and capture of... Show morepor Luis Marinho d'Azevedo ... First and only edition of this defence of Fernão de Albuquerque, a crucial source for the 1622 siege and capture of Hormuz by an Anglo-Persian force. The defeat of Rui Freire de Andrade effectively ended Portuguese power in the Arabian Gulf. This book is a most valuable source for the siege of Ormuz and operations in the Arabian Gulf in 1619-23 and contains extracts from contemporary documents relating to this campaign. - Several contemporary underlinings. Some browning; remarginings to title page, p. 3 of preliminary matter, Bb4 (defects to text); some of the loss has been supplied in blue ink (showing unattractive bleeding). Main Heritage Shelves General DS326 .A94 1641 Book Item-ID: i16598684 BIB-ID: 1494587 Show less
Pilot guides, Pilot guides--Red Sea, Description and travel, DT7 .C37 1833, 462 C279r
Por Dom Ioam de Castro. Tirado a luz pela primeira vez do manuscrito original, e acrescentado com o Itinerarium maris Rubri, e o retrato do author,... Show morePor Dom Ioam de Castro. Tirado a luz pela primeira vez do manuscrito original, e acrescentado com o Itinerarium maris Rubri, e o retrato do author, pelo doutor Antonio Nunes de Carvalho. Acusta de huma sociedade de Portuguezes. Very scarce (unrecorded on ABPC) account of this 16th-century sea voyage around the Arabian Peninsula. The present work is the first full appearance of this journey in print, published from the original manuscript logbooks of Castro's journey, touching on both navigational matters and events of general interest; for example, he devotes a long passage to refuting the theory that the Red Sea really is red (p 257) by drawing up daily samples for examination. Joao's voyage took him up the Red Sea, alighting on both the African coast and the Arabian coast until he reached Suez; his account includes descriptions of the various ports he encountered enroute. As the British Library catalogue notes, the original manuscript was reputed to have bought by Sir Walter Raleigh for £60. Added t.p., illustrated. "E acompanhado de um atlas de 17 cartas, ou taboas, que costumam enquadernar-se em separado."--Silva, Dict. bibl. port., vol. III, p. 345. Atlas wanting. Main Heritage Shelves General DT7 .C37 1833 Book Item-ID: i16817333 BIB-ID: 1507112 Show less
Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--17th century, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS506 .G63 1665
This volume is an account of the journey made by the Jesuit Father Manoel Godinho from India to Portugal by a new route, over land and sea. It... Show moreThis volume is an account of the journey made by the Jesuit Father Manoel Godinho from India to Portugal by a new route, over land and sea. It contains valuable descriptions of India, Persia, and the adjacent Turkish Dominions, Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, etc. Father Godinho (1632-1712) had the spirit of an adventurer rather than a priest, and left the Order on his return to Portugal in 1663. He candidly admits the decline of Portuguese power in India, and the rise of the English and Dutch, especially the former. This is the first edition of his journey. It is considered "a very rare and valuable book of early travel in and near India, of which Brunet remarks that it is so rare as to have been wanting in the best collections of Voyages and Travels sold during many years past". o padre Manoel Godinho da Companhia de Iesu : enviado à magestade del Rey N.S. Dom Affonso VI, pello seu viso-rey Antonio de Mello de Castro, & Estado de India, a Luis de Vasconcellos e Sousa, Conde des Castel Melhor ... Initial letters in woodcut. Signatures: aa A⁸-L⁸ M⁶ Includes index (p. 184-188) Main Heritage Shelves General DS506 .G63 1665 Book Item-ID: i19660091 BIB-ID: 1779895 Early 19th c. ownerships by Filippo da Jesus da Silva and Maria das Dores, verso of title page Show less
