1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390718203316

Autore

Partridge John <1644-1715.>

Titolo

Mr. Partridhe's [sic] famous prophesies and predictions [[electronic resource] ] : together with the observations of sundry other great and learned astrologers, touching the wonderful things that are expected to happen in the year, 1690. in great Britain, France, and Ireland, and other kingdoms, states, and countries in matters of peace, negotiation, war, casualties, contingencies, and other transactions more particularly the happiness promised this nation, and the danger that threatens the French King, and his dominions; also the popish army in Ireland: also the union of Protestants, reciting likewise a strange & wonderful vision on the subject of these affairs lately happening, foretelling the quieting Scotland, reducing Ireland, and the conquest of France, and by what means it was proposed to be confirmed as a truth, and what has since come to pass in order thereunto: the happy reign of our glorious monarch, and his triumph over his enemies. Licensed according to order

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : Printed for P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J. Blare, J. Back, 1690

Descrizione fisica

6 p

Soggetti

Prophecies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title page woodcut.

Place of publication supplied by cataloger.

Reproduction of the original in the Glasgow University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0166



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973780203321

Autore

Brito Bernardo Gomes de <1688-1760?>

Titolo

The tragic history of the sea, 1589-1622 : narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indianmen Sao Thome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa / / edited by C.R. B

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [England], : Published by the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1959

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-01374-3

1-317-01375-1

1-315-55214-0

1-283-12881-0

9786613128812

1-4094-1717-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 194  pages)

Collana

Hakluyt Society

Altri autori (Persone)

BoxerC. R <1904-2000.> (Charles Ralph)

Disciplina

910.452

Soggetti

Shipwrecks

Merchant marine - Portugal

Africa, East Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Narrative of the shipwreck of the great ship Sao Thome, in the land of the Fumos, in the year 1589 / by Diogo do Couto -- Shipwreck of the great ship Santo Alberto, and itinerary of the people, who were save from it, 1593 / by Joao Baptista Lavanha -- Treatise of the misfortune that befell the great ship Sao Joao Baptista, 1622 / by Francisco Vaz d'Almada.

Sommario/riassunto

Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, Jo o Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the Hist 3ria Tr gico-Mar -tima edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon in 1735-6. The introduction and appendices discuss the 'Carreira da ndia''. For a further selection from



the same source, see Second Series 132. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the sketch map of 'Figure 1: The Carreira da India, 1589-1622' which faced the first page of the book in the first edition.