DIAS AND HIS SUCCESSORS

[Axelson (Eric) Editor]

Description:

Contributions by Eric Axelson, Charles Boxer, Graham Bell-Cross & Colin Martin.

159 pages, 32 charts in colour and black & white, brown cloth, a very good copy in the dust jacket.

'Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 rounded Africa and entered the Indian Ocean, with vital consequences for both Europe and Asia. The voyage was epoch-making. This volume, published on the fifth centenary of the voyage, contains information about the Dias voyage and subsequent Portuguese maritime activities in South African waters; it includes a section on the development of Portuguese nautical science, especially of maritime cartography, during the period of the Discoveries and into the seventeenth century'. Editor's note.

Details:

  • Publisher: Saayman & Weber
  • Publisher Place: Cape Town
  • Date of Publication: 1988
  • Jacket Condition: Very Good
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 4to (310 x 250 mm)
  • Lot No: 256
  • Hammer Price: $52
  • Bids: 5
  • Visits: 32
  • Estimate: $60/80
  • Reserve: $40

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