The Suma Oriental of Tome Pires: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, Written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515,- Edited Title

Volume I: Translated from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliotheque de la Chambre des Deputes, Paris. Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental. Volume II: Translated by the editor from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliotheque de la Chambre des Deputes, Paris. Book VI of the Suma Oriental, together with a translation of Rodrigues' 'Book', the entire Portuguese texts, and a letter from Pires to King Manuel, 1516. The main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1944.