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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth centuryAduarte, Diego

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Name: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55, 1640: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Author: Aduarte, Diego

Aduarte, Diego

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                   The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898

   Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and
   their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions,
    as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the
   political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those
   islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the
                    close of the nineteenth century,

                            Volume XXX, 1640

 Edited and annotated by Emma Helen Blair and James Alexander Robertson
  with historical introduction and additional notes by Edward Gaylord
                                Bourne.

                      The Arthur H. Clark Company
                            Cleveland, Ohio
                                  MCMV

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXX

    Preface                                                         9

    Commerce between the Philippines and Nueva España. Antonio
    Alvarez de Abreu; Madrid, 1736. [From his Extracto
    historial.]                                                    23

    Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario de la Orden
    de Predicadores (to be continued). Diego Aduarte, O.P.;
    Manila, 1640                                                  115

    Bibliographical Data                                          323

ILLUSTRATIONS

    Title-page of Extracto historial (Madrid, 1736);
    photographic facsimile from copy in library of Harvard
    University                                                     21

    Map of the eastern islands; photographic facsimile from
    Mercator's Atlas minor (Amsterdam, 1633); from copy of
    original map in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris              83

    Title-page of Historia de la provincia del Sancto Rosario
    ... en Philippinas, by Diego Aduarte, O.P. (Manila, 1640);
    photographic facsimile from copy in library of Edward
    E. Ayer, Chicago                                              113

    Governor Luis Perez Dasmariñas; from painting exhibited at
    St. Louis, 1904, in the Philippine exhibit of the Louisiana
    Purchase Exposition                                           227

PREFACE

The present volume contains no record of events in the year 1640;
but its two documents are retrospective from that date. The first,
an historical survey of Philippine commerce with Nueva España,
from its beginning until 1640, is taken from the Extracto historial
(Madrid, 1736), a work devoted to that subject and compiled by order
of the Spanish government. The second is Aduarte's noted history of
the Dominican missions in the Philippines; although much of it is
briefly synopsized, its great length permits us only to begin it here,
two more volumes being necessary to complete it.

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