Ongemeene Scheeps-Togten en Manhafte Krygs-Bedryven te Water en Land, door Diego Lopez de Sequeira

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Small 8vo., (7 x 4 3/8 inches). Engraved printer's device on title-page. 6 fine folding plates of views in the East Indies, and 5 (of 6) folding maps (three loose). Contemporary Dutch vellum (lightly soiled). [Bound with:] HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de (1559-1625). De Roem-Waardige Zee-en Land-Togten Door den vermaarden Ferdinandes Cortes. Leyden: Pieter van der Aa, 1706. 5 fine folding plates of views (one torn at the gutter not affecting the image) and one map of "Nieuw Spaanje; van Panuco, Mexico.". First editions thus, both titles from van der Aa's extensive series reprinting early accounts of travel and exploration "Naaukeurige Versameling der Gedenk-Waardigste Zee en Land-Reysen". Sequeira, the Portuguese admiral, was sent to assess trade prospects in Madagascar and Malacca which he discovered in September 1509. However he left in a hurry the next year when he learned that the ruler was planning to kill him. This gave Alfonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515) enough encouragement to begin his campaign of conquests in the East. "Sequeira was later made governor of Portugal's Asian territories (1518-22), and in 1520 commanded an expedition into the Red Sea which dispatched the first official Portuguese embassy to Ethiopia" (History today). The maps show Persia, Ethiopia and Abysinnia, Sumatra, the Moluccas, and North and South America showing Magellan's route through the Straits of Moluccas. Catalogued by Kate Hunter. N° de ref. del artículo 002520

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