Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & aliis orientalibus terris

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Лот 35 | Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, & aliis orientalibus terris
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Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, et aliis orientalibus terris. Rome: Johannes Besicken, November 1506.

First edition of the first account of European colonization in India. It documents Portuguese conquests in East Africa and India, and the first European arrival in Sri Lanka. The Mindlin copy, extremely rare. This work described events mere months after their occurrence. It gives a summary of Portugal's key military actions in 1505 undertaken by Francisco de Almeida (1450-1510), the first viceroy of Portuguese India. His voyage was distinguished from those of Vasco da Gama or Cabral by his mission as viceroy, a would-be ruler rather than trading partner. The account covers the sacking of Mombasa, and acts of both construction and destruction all down the west coast of India, most notably in Anjediva, Honnavar, Kannur, and Kochi. Lourenço de Almeida, son of Francisco de Almeida, was the first Portuguese to reach Sri Lanka, accidentally landing while en route to the Maldives. In describing his visit, this work is believed to contain the earliest printed reference to that island, identified by its classical name "Taprobana." In later editions, the authorship is ascribed to Pedro Alfonso Malheiro, Chaplain to the Cardinal Bishop of Oporto. EDIT16 CNCE 39606; Grenville, p.224.

Quarto (193 x 145mm). Six leaves. Dark green morocco janseniste by Lortic, all edges gilt (darkening and a touch of rubbing to spine). Provenance: with Maggs Bros., Bibliotheaca Asiatica et Africana Part IV, catalogue 519, 1929, no. 23. (slip tipped to f.f.e.) – José Mindlin, 1914-2010 (bookplate).

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