The Edgar Martins Rare Book Collection

1. HENRY SCHOLBERG
Bibliography of Goa and the Portuguese in India (1982) English

2. MAFFEI JOHANNES PIETRO BERGOMATIS
Indicarum Libri XVI (1614) Latin

3. JOSE NICOLAU DE FONSECA
Historical and Archeological Sketch of the City of Goa (1898) English. This is a copy that was presented by the author to King Dom Joao II of Portugal. It is beautifully bound and has been reprinted recently by Asia Publishing in N. Delhi.

4. FRANCISCO PYRARD DE LAVAL
Viagem. Portuguese.
The original work was printed in 1611.
This is a reprint (1858) by Joaquim Heliodoro da Cunha Rivara.

5. PYRRARD, FRANCOIS
The voyage of Francisco Pyrrard de Laval (1887-90) English
Translated into English from the third French edition.
This reprint for the Hakluyt Society 2 vols in 3. Material on Goa is mainly in Vol.2,Part I, Chaps. 1 to 8.

6. JOHN HUYGHEN VAN LINSCHOTEN
The voyage of John Huyghen Van Linschoten to the East Indies
fron the old English Translation of 1598. (1885) English.
This reprint in two vols. contains his description of the East in 2 vols.

7. PIETRO DELLA VALLE
The travels of Pietro Della Valle (1842) English
This is a reprint by the Hakluyt Society in 2 vols. from the old English translation of 1664 by G. Havers (2 vols).

8. LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA OG BOLOGNA
The Itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508 as translated from the old Italian edition of 1510.
The is a reprint by the Hakluyt Society (1928). English.

9. GABRIELE DELLON
Histoire de l'inquisition de Goa avec figure (French) (1737) Published by Louis Foubert.

10 RALPH FITCH
England's Pioneer to India and Burma English (1899)

11. LOPES MENDES
A India Portuguesa. Portuguese (2 Vols) (1886).
A brief description of the Portuguese possessions in Asia divided in two vols. and illustrated with 383 sketches and seven maps.

12. A INDIA PORTUGUESA
An anthology by several leading authors. Portuguese (1923)
These two vols. are considered the most important works published in the 20th. century.

13. F.C. DANVERS
The Portuguese in India. English (1966)
These two vols. are a reprint of the original (1894).

14. DOM JOAO DE CASTRO
Roteiro de Lisboa a Goa. Portuguese (1882)
This was an edition printed for the academy of sciences in Lisbon, Portugal.

15. JACINTO FREYRE DE ANDRADE
Vida de Dom Joao de Castro. Portuguese (1834) Dom Joao de Castro was the fourth viceroy of India.

16. FREDERICO DINIZ D'AYALLA
Goa Antigua e Moderna Portuguese (1888)

17. ALBERTO DA SILVA CORREIA
La Veille Goa French.(1931)

18. R.S. WHITEWAY
The Rise of the Portuguese Power in India (1497- 1550) English (1969).
This is a reprint of the original.

19. GERMANO CORREIA
Historia da colonization Portuguesa na India Portuguese (1948)

20. C.R.BOXER
The tragic history of the sea English (1959)
Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen
Sao Tome (1589), Santo Alberto (1593) and Sao Baptista (1622).

21. ERNESTO MOREIRA DE SA
A viagem de Vasco da Gama, de Portugal a India (1898)
This anthology is in commemoration of the 400th. anniversary
of the 'discovery' of India. Contains the Lusiades by Camoens in six languages.

22. RAMKRISHNA SINAI DHUME
The cultural history of Goa from 10,000 B.C. to 1352 A.D.

23. SALDANHA C.F. S.J.
A short History of Goa 2nd. Edition English (1957)
Imprensa National, Goa.

24. TRAVELS OF IBN BATUTTA
2 Vols. in one edited by Defremery & Sanguinetti in three vols.

25. REMY Goa Rome of the orient. English (1957)

26. MONS. GOMES CATAO
The island of Chorao English (1962)

27. ANGELUS FRANCIS XAVIER MAFFEI
An English-Konkani Dictionary (1983)
Reprint of the original of 1883.

28. ANGELUS FRANCUS XAVIER MAFFEI
A Konkani Grammar (1986)
Reprint of the original (1882)

29. MANSEL LONGWORTH DAMES
The book of Duarte Barbosa. English (1989) 2 vols.
Reprint of the original of 1912

. 30. DENIS L. COTTINEAU DE KLOGUEN
An historical sketch of Goa. English (1988)
The metropolis of the Portuguese settlements in India
This is a reprint of the original of 1831.

31. REVEREND ALEXANDER KYD NAIRNA
History of the Konkan
. Reprint of the original of 1894.

32. MARIO CABRAL E SA
Great Goans. English (1985).
Lives of the Abbe Faria, Fr, Jose Vaz, Lata Mangeshkar and T.B.Cunha.

33. FR. PIERRE DU JARRIC S.J.
Akbar and the Jesuits. English (1926)
First published in French in 1612.

34. P.D.GAITONDE
The Liberation of Goa. English (1986).

35. OLIVINHO J.F. GOMES
Village Goa - A study of Goan social structures and changes. English. (1987)

36. A.K.PRIOLKAR
Goa re-discovered. English (1967)

37. T.B.CUNHA Goa's Freedom Struggle. English (1961)

38. ASIF CURRIMBHOY
Goa and the hungry ones. A play in English (1964).

39. ASIF CURRIMBUOY
Goa and Abbe. Faria. A play in English (1964).

40. J.DE S. RITA E SOUZA
Gramata concani. Portuguese (1929)

41. ROBERT DE SOUZA
Goa and the continent of Circe. English (1973).

42. LAMBERT MASCARENHAS
Sorrowing lies my land. English (1955).

43. S.J.BORKAR
Let's learn Konkani; An attempt to learn Konkani in the Devanagri script.

44. FURTADO'S NEW ENG/KONKANI POCKET DICTIONARY (1931)

45. LADIS DA SILVA
Americanisation of Goans.

46. LADIS DA SILVA
Legendary Chandor.

47. GOA, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE.
Edited by Narendra K. Wagle & George Coelho.

48. GEORGE M. MORAES
The Kadamba Kula. English (1990)
This is a reprint of the original of 1931.

49. Goans In London, Portrait of a Catholic Asian Community,
By Stella Mascarenhas Keyes. A Goan Association(U K) Publication, (First Edition 1979)

50. This is Goa.
Edited by Sarto Esteves & Vatsala de Sousa.
Published for the Eucharistic Congress in 1983.

UPDATE OF SEPTEMBER 10, 1996
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