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by Eliud Nicolai

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Shirley, 300A; VD-17, 23:257416G; Alden-Landis, 619/94; John Carter Bown, Library, II, 137-138; Sabin, 55242. Édition originale de cette compilation donnant grand nombre de détails sur des découvertes faites en Asie, notamment à Goa, Pegu, et les Philippines ainsi que sur l avancée des Hollandais et des Anglais aux Indes orientales. « Considerable detail about affairs in Portuguese Asia became available with the 1619 publication of Eliud Nicolai s New und wahrhaffte Relation . Translated from or extracted from unnamed Spanish and Portuguese sources, Nicolai s book describes the Portuguese discoveries in Asia, the conquests of Goa, of Pegu, and of the Philippines, the intrusion of the Dutch and English into the East Indies, and the conflicts between them and the Iberians. Recent events are treated with more detail than earlier events. One chapter describes can Spilbergen s voyage, for example and several chapters are devoted to the exploits of Felipe de Brito and the growth of Portuguese influence. Victories over the Dutch are celebrated. It is a collection of pieces rather than a continuous narrative, and most of them recount European activities in Asia. There are a few descriptive passages, however, notably of Madagascar and Sumatra » (Donald Lach Edwin Van Kley, in: Asia and the Making of Europe, III, p. 520). L ouvrage est illustré d une très belle mappemonde basée sur celle de Hessel Geritsz de 1612 (voir Shirley 278: « A close copy of Gerritsz map, with an added note on

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