The Portuguese in India: Being a History of the Rise and Decline of their Eastern Empire [2 Volumes]

Frederick Charles Danvers, The Portuguese in India: Being a history of the rise and decline of their Eastern Empire, London: W H Allen & Co., 1894, 2 Volumes

Volume I: liii, (1), 572 pages, including a frontispiece of Portrait of Dom Henrique of Portugal, 9 black and white plates and a folded map of India.
Volume II: (1), 579 pages, (1) pp. including a frontispiece of Portrait of Dom Affonso de Albequerque, 5 black and white plates, 4 maps including a large folding Map of Portuguese possessions in Goa inserted into a pocket at the back

Publisher's original armorial gilt blue cloth boards with gilt text at the spine (each)
9 x 6 in (23 x 16 cm) (each)

Tipped in plate on the front pastedown mentioning "Presented by the Secretary of / State in Council of India. / India Office / London."

A comprehensive description encompassing history of Portuguese India, including an extensive account of the campaigns and operations of Afonso de Albuquerque in the Arabian Gulf, which he entered as the first European. "In 1506 Albuquerque was dispatched from Lisbon on an expedition, intended to consolidate Portuguese supremacy in the Indian Ocean. His instructions were to monopolize trade with East India for Portugal, and to exclude both Venetians and Saracens from Indian waters [.] Attacks were made on the Arab ports at Malindi, Hoja, Lamu and Brava, before continuing to Socotra [.] Sailing from Socotra with six ships, Albuquerque coasted the Arabian Peninsula, sacked Muscat and Sohar, and then launched an attack on Hormuz during the months of September and October 1507. Despite the overwhelming forces assembled against him by the island's twelve-year-old ruler, Albuquerque mounted a successful siege, with the result that the ruler become a vassal of the Portuguese crown" (Howgego I, 19ff.)

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