The Commentaries of the great Afonso Dalboquerque, second Viceroy of India

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Author: Albuquerque, Afonso de , Duke of Goa (c1453-1515) Year: 1875-1877 Publisher: Hakluyt Society Place: London Description: 2 volumes. lx+256 pages with frontispiece and two folding maps; cxxxiv [error: cxxxvi]+242 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, one illustrations. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover and edge ruled decorative blind stamp to covers. Translated from the Portuguese Edition of 1774, with Notes and an Introduction, by Walter de Gray Birch. Hakluyt Society, First Series 53 and 55. two additional volumes complete this set which are not included volume 62 and 69. First English edition. Afonso de Albuquerque, Duke of Goa was a Portuguese general, a "great conqueror", a statesman, and an empire builder. Afonso advanced the three-fold Portuguese grand scheme of combating Islam, spreading Christianity, and securing the trade of spices by establishing a Portuguese Asian empire. Among his achievements, Afonso was the first European of his Renaissance to raid the Persian Gulf, and he led the first voyage by a European fleet into the Red Sea. His military and administrative works are generally regarded as among the most vital to building and securing the Portuguese Empire in the Orient, the Middle East, and the spice routes of eastern Oceania. Afonso is generally considered a military genius, and "probably the greatest naval commander of the a

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