Travel Accounts of the Islands (1513-1787)

Description

408pp., hardbound blue cloth
cover, decorated and lettered in gilt.
sticker of former seller on title page.
17 illustrations including frontispiece.
RARE REFERENCE
published by Filipiniana Book Guild, Manila.
Travel accounts of: Tomé Pires (1513), Pedro Ordóñez de Cevallos (1595),
Francois Pyrard (1605), Joris van Spielbergen (1616), Pedro Cubero Sebastian (1668),
William Dampier (1686), Alexander Dalrymple (1762), Pierre de Pagés (1768),
Captain Crozet (1772), Guillaume Raynal (1772), Thomas Forrest (1774),
de la Perouse (1787).