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PORTUGAL. FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto.
See original version (French)
120
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PORTUGAL. FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
PORTUGAL.
FREIRE DE ANDRADE, Jacinto.
Vida de Dom Joaõ de Castro, Quarto viso-rei da India; por Jacinto Freyre de Andrade. Nova Ediçao.
Lisboa, na Typographia Rollandiana, 1834.
In-16, (5) ff, 341 pp, portrait-frontispiece and 2 plates, one folding. Strictly contemporary Portuguese fawn shagreened basane, smooth spine (top headband frayed, binding rubbed at spine ends and corners).
Illustrated with 3 copper engravings, a frontispiece portrait of Dom João de Castro, a fold-out plan of the town of Diu (port of the NW of the Indies) with portrait of Dom João Mascarenhas and an engraving of a cross used by the Christians of Saint-Thomas de Meliapor.
An early edition of the life of the Portuguese nobleman and Viceroy of the Portuguese Indies, Dom João de Castro (1500-1548), written by the priest-historian Jacinto Freire de Andrade (1597-1657).
Published in 1651, it is the very first biography in the Portuguese language.
De Castro fought against the Ottoman Empire at the siege of Tunis (1535), joined Estêvão de Gama (Vasco's son) on an expedition to Suez and played a major role in the defeat of the Gujarat sultanate at the siege of Diu in 1546. He was appointed viceroy by John III of Portugal and was confessed at his death by St Francis Xavier, then nuncio to India.
Also includes accounts of the battles between the Arabs and Turks at Hormuz.
Old MS ex libris to title Gustavo Adolpho Rob(uie) Gerjais.
See original version (French)
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