BARROS (João de). ASIA [PRIMEIRA - TERCEIRA DECADA] de Joam de Barros dos Fectos que os Portugueses Fizeram no Descobrimento & Conquista dos Mares & Terras do Oriente. Em Lixboa. 1552-1563.

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BARROS (João de)
ASIA [PRIMEIRA – TERCEIRA DECADA] de Joam de Barros dos Fectos que os Portugueses Fizeram no Descobrimento & Conquista dos Mares & Terras do Oriente. Em Lixboa: per Germão Galharde, 1552-1563.

3 v.; [ ]2, a-q8; [2], 128 ff.; [ ]4, A-R8, S7, [4], 143 ff; [cruz cristo]8, A-Z, Aa-Ji8, Kk6, Ll4, [8], 266 ff.; 380 e 295 mm. Heavily restored copy; leaves from several copies with many margins rebuilt in all volumes; facsimiles: 1st: title-page, "Prologo’s" first leaf; fol. q7 and q8 (127 and 128); 2nd: title-page, two leaves of "Errata" and f.A1; 3rd: title page and all Ll gathering; f.q6 from 1st v. with loss of paper and text; modern full vellum; water stains.

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BARROS (João de) & LAVANHA (João Baptista)

QUARTA DECADA da Asia de João de Barros: Dos feitos que os Portugueses Fizerão no Descobrimento, e Conquista dos Mares e Terras do Oriente. Em Madrid: na Impressão Real, 1615.

¶10, ¶6, A-Z, AA-XX8, YY4; [32], 712 pp., 3 mapas; 290 mm. Same biding: facsimile engraved title-page; final leaves with wormholes on text.

FIRST EDITION, VERY RARE, of one of the most important documents in the history of the Portuguese Discoveries. The work does not need any presentation. We only note its rarity, quoting Diogo do Couto from D. Manuel: "The Decades of João de Barros, our natural (which, due to its great erudition, as well as the great deeds that its naturals wrote, are worthy of much esteem) so they were estimated from us, that there was no more than the first impression, that time has been so consumed, that I don’t know if there are ten volumes in Portugal, and in India just one." [cf. D.Manuel, p. 289, Decada IV, part I, part xxxiii]

¶ Inocêncio, v.3, p. 321; Sabin, 3646; D. Manuel, 74

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