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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 359 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Second Italian edition. 2 vols in one, small 4to. in 8s, [10], 200, [7], [1 (blank)], 228 ff., woodcut device to titles, woodcut initials throughout; short marginal paper-flaw to 2a7, occasional light browning; late 19th-century red morocco gilt, all edges marbled and gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon page-marker; a little darkened, minimally rubbed, short splits to hinges, nonetheless a very good copy. SEVIST Second Italian edition of the first and second Decadas of Barros, originally published in 1552-53 in Lisbon and first published in Italian by Valgrisio in 1561; the Portuguese original is excessively rare. The Decadas is one of the first great accounts of European overseas exploration and colonisation. The first part refers to Columbus, the discovery of the Americas and of Brazil. Barros (1496-1570), a Portuguese historian and civil servant, is of great importance in Brazilian history as being one of the 'donatorios'. The last volume, which appeared posthumously in 1615, covered the period from 1539 to the end of the century and was edited and written by Diogo do Couto. Barros' other works on geography, commerce, and navigation disappeared after his death. European Americana, 561/6; Sabin 3647; BdM I, 86-87.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2 parts, bound in one. Bound in later vellum. Yapp edges and vellum ties. Very good binding. 2nd Italian ed. (The 1st Italian ed. was printed in 1561, this book was re-issued the next year with only title page altered.) Text is generally clean and in very good condition. Minor marginal dampstain to last 30 pages in the 2nd part. Collated. (10) 200; (8) 228. Lacking 2 leaves in second part, ff. 226-227. A previous owner has written, Christie's London, Feb. 1974 on fep. The book is presumed to have been sold at that auction. Refs: Sabin 3647. Adams B255. Joao de Barros (1496-1570) was a Portuguese humanist historian in the service of John III (Joao) and crown administer for Guinea and the Indies. He served as "Feitor da Casa da India," or chief administrator of the overseas spice trade. "His position gave him access to documents of the Portuguese Empire in Asia and Africa and to the military and colonial officials that staffed it; he used this knowledge to produce his brilliantly written Decadas da Asia (1552-53, 1563), a stirring narrative of the building of the Portuguese Empire." - Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Edition. 2016. This volume contains the first two books of Barros' chronicle of the Portuguese navigations of Asia; chronicling the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Bartholomeo Diaz, Francisco and Alfonso d'Albuquerque, Pedro Cabral, etc. Barros "intended to bring together five sets of materials: older histories such as that of Zurara; the letters and papers normally generated by the Portuguese expeditions to Asia (and to a more limited extent those of the Spaniards) and their administration there; oral accounts gathered from those participants who returned alive, and to whom Barros had privileged access; written accounts in Portuguese, whether of travel or geographical surveys of a sort that were becoming increasingly common by the 1530s, some of which were spontaneous in composition and others solicited by Barros himself; and finally, written materials in Asian languages." Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. "Intertwined Histories: "Cronica" and "Tarikh" in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean World." History and Theory 49, no. 4 (2010): 135. Full title: L'Asia; de' fatti de' Portoghesi nello scoprimento, & conquista de' mari & terre di Oriente. Nella quale oltre le cose appartenenti alla militia, si ha piena cognitione de tutte le citta, monti, & fiumi delle parti orientali, con la descrittione de' paesi & costumi de quei popoli.

Nelle quali s' ha particolare & vera relatione della vita, e de' fatti dell' Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo Sue Padre. (.). Second edition. 12mo. Contemporary vellum, dust-soiled. Light browning. [48], 489, [11]pp. Venice, Iseppo Prodocimo, An account of Christopher Columbus' life from a text supposedly written by his son, though this claim is disputed. .

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 359 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.