The Philippine Islands: Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
Antonio de Morga, "The Philippine Islands: Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 0331702304 | 2018 | 486 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0331702304 | 2018 | 486 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Excerpt from The Philippine Islands: Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
The original work of De Morga was printed in Mexico in 1609, and has become extremely rare there is no copy of it in sthe Bibliotheque Imperiale of Paris. This translation; is from a transcription made for thehakluyt Society from the copy in the Gren ville Library of the British Museum; the catalogue of which states that this book, printed at Mexico, is for that reason probably unknown to bibliographers.
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