TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



BIBLIOGBAPHY OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, MAPS, MAGAZINE 

 AETICLES, &c, EELATING TO SOUTH AFEICA, WITH 

 SPECIAL EEFEEENCE TO GEOGEAPHY. FEOM THE 

 TIME OF VASCO DA GAMA TO THE FOEMATION OF THE 

 BEITISH SOUTH AFEICA COMPANY IN 1888. 



By H. C. Schunke Hollway, F.E.G.S., F.S.A. 



1 Di Benigno, M. ' Lettera a Francesco Affaitati scritta da 



Mozambico il 3 Aprile, 1503.' 



MS. in the Marcus Library at Venice. It contains much valuable information. 

 Benigno was the companion of Vasco da Gama on his second voyage. 



2 A letter written by the King of Portugal in 1505 to the King 

 of Castile (Ferdinand), of which there exists an Italian translation. 



It gives an account of Vasco da Gama's second voyage to Calicut. 



3 ' Esmeraldo de situ orbis,' feito e compost o por Duarte 

 Pacheco Pereira, cavaliero da Caza del Rey dom Joam o 2° de 

 Portugal, &c. 



MS. of the year 1505 in the libraries of Evora and Lisbon. It gives interesting 

 data on the hydrography of Africa. Pacheco travelled in April, 1503, to India with 

 Albuquerque, and remained afterwards for some time in Eastern and Western Africa. 



4 Waltzemiiller's ' Cosmographiae introductio cum quibusdam 

 geometrise ac astronomiae principiis.' 



St. Die, 1507 (Strassburg, 1509; Venice, 1535 and 1545). 



5 ' Itinerarium PortugaJlensium e Lusitania in Indiam et inde 

 in Occidentem,' &c. 



Mediolani, 1508. Very interesting work ; contains an account of the voyages 

 of Cada Mosto, and notes on Portuguese voyages. 



6 Buchamer, Jobst. ' Newe vnbekanthe landte. Und eine 

 newe weldte in kurtz vergangener zeythe erfunden.' 



Nurenbergh, 1508. German translation of Zorzi's collection of Travels. Con- 

 tains also voyages of the Portuguese to Africa. 



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