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Historia da America portugueza desde o anno de mil e quinhentos do seu descobrimento até o de mil e setecentos e vinte e quatro

by: Rocha Pita, Sebastião da, 1660-1738; Góis, José Gomes, 1826-1886

Publication date: 1730

Topics: Rocha Pita, Sebastião da, 1660-1738, Catholic Church, CPJCB, Imprint 1880, genealogy

Publisher: Lisboa : Editor-Francisco Arthur da Silva, Rua dos Douradores, 72

Collection: jcbportugalbrazil; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: Portuguese

XXVIII, 404 p., [8] leaves of plates :ill., map ;27 cm "It should be noted that this edition states that it is the second whereas it is in fact the third. Lisbon was indoubedly unware that Baron Homen de Melo had published another edition in Bahia two years previously." (Moraes)

Edition statement appears on title page before "Ornada..."

Map on double plate

Title page in red and black

Title vignette: printer's device

Signatures: pi² * 2* 1-25 chi² (pi1, pi2, *4, 21, 21 versos blank)

Cf. Silva, I.F. da. Dic. bib. portuguez, t. VII, p. 222

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Barbosa Machado

John Carter Brown Library copy has some foxing