Rebus Emmanuelis Regis Lusitaniae Invictissimi by Osorio Fonseca Jeronimo (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folio (307 x 216 mm), 17th century calf, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments (some light repairs), red sprinkled edges; a 18th ms. praise of Osorio to first flyleaf, and a ms. ownership entry on title (ink inscription scored through at head of title, some light waterstaining, mostly visible to last leaves). Title with half-page woodcut arms of King Manuel of Portugal, large woodcut historiated initials, pp. 480. First edition of this chronicle of the reign of Manuel I of Portugal (1495-1521), during which the sea route to India was discovered and the foundations of empire laid in Africa, Asia and America. Included are the exploits of Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Almeida and Albuquerque. "Osorio deserves a word in his own right . he was such a stylist in Latin that he became known as the Portuguese Cicero" (Boies Penrose, Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, p.349). Sabin 57804; Borba de Moraes p.637; Samodaes 2292; Adams O-379; Alden & Landis 571/29; Arents Tobacco (Add.) 47.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fol. 480, [2] pages. Signed A-Ff in eights followed by a single leaf Hh1 (Privilegium and Errata). Woodcut arms on title-page; woodcut initials at the beginning of each of the twelve books. PROVENANCES: 18th-century inscriptions in two hands "Don Matías de Rada" and "y agora de D. Joseph Felix de Amada" on title-page. Five spine compartments are lettered with the initial "N" in gilt surmounted by a coronet. 19th-century inscription " Conde de Lavradio comprado em Londres" on front flyleaf - Francisco de Almeida Portugal, 2nd Conde de Lavradio (1797-1870), was the Portuguese envoy in London between 1851 and 1869. Small printed sale label with number "1147" on front pastedown. ANNOTATIONS: numerous 18th-century marginal annotations in ink in Portuguese (some very slightly cropped by binder). BINDING: 18th-century mottled calf; rebacked with portions of original spine put back; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves. CONDITION: original covers worn and two largish tears repaired; some loss at head and tail of spine of repaired spine; marginal worming in the upper margins of pages 339-428 adjacent to the page numbers - all worm-holes repaired with tissue - no loss of text. ***** An important source, compiled by a Portuguese humanist bishop, of the Portuguese discoveries and territorial conquests in Africa, Asia and South America during the reign of Manuel I (1495-1521). Osorio's "De rebus Emmanuelis regis Lusitaniae" included accounts of the voyages of Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Cabral, Almeida, and Albuquerque. Iberian Books online IB 14019; USTC 345891; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 571/29; Sabin 57804.