PORTUGUESE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA 1488-1600 & 1600-1700 & VASCO DA GAMA

1. Portuguese in South-East Africa 1488-1600

First edition 1973 published on behalf of The Ernest Oppenheimer Institute of Portuguese Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand. This hardcover with dust jacket is in very condition. 276 pages. It includes chapters on Sofala and Mocambique, sea-route to India, Barreto-Homem expedition, The Cuama. Includes 18 illustrations.

2. Portuguese in South-East Africa 1600-1700

Third edition 1969. Hardcover in very good condition. The dust jacket has a tear or two. 226 pages. 12 illustrations and 3 maps. Includes topics as the Sieges of Mocambique, Estevao De Ataide, Diogo Simoes Madeira, Nuno Alvares Pereira, the Revolt of Mombasa, the 1635 Settlement Scheme and the Fall of Mombasa.

3. Vasco da Gama - The Diary of his Travels through African waters 1497 - 1499

First edition 1998. White covers with the titles to the front board and spine. 102 pages. The dust jacket has slight wear around edges. A very good copy.

Axelson began his researches into the history of the Portuguese in 1936 and soon became well know for his discovery of the farthest stone pillar which Bartolomeu Dias erected in 1488. He details the 17th century activities of the Portuguese in south-east Africa, from their base in Mocambique up the Zambezi into Mashonaland, and on the Mombasa coast. An appendix summarizes survivors' accounts of the shipwrecks on the coast of southern Africa during this period.