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LOPES DE CASTANHEDA, FERNAO. The first Booke of the Historie of the Discouerie and Conquest Indias, enterprised by the Portingales...translated into English, by N[icholas] Lichfield]. London: Thomas East 1582. Small 4to, nineteenth-century brown polished blind-stamped calf, sides with gilt-stemmed crest of arms of George Wilbraham, g.e., light wear at extremities, small crack in rear outer joint, very slight marginal worming to a number of leaves. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, colophon leaf at end, mostly black letter, title within woodcut border, woodcut initials.
"Although relating principally to the Portuguese in India, China, and the East Indies [where Lopes de Castanheda lived for twenty years], this work contains interesting particulars of the Portuguese conquest of Brazil. The first book [all that was published] treats only the early part of Lopes de Castanheda's history, but it is the part most important in American history, as it includes Cabral's voyage [his discovery of Brazil in 1500] and others. Nothing more was ever printed in English or Spanish. Nicholas Lichfield, who dedicated the book to Sir Francis Drake...probably was Thomas Nicholas, the well-known translator of the Tudor era. This English edition is very rare [no copy at auction since the Penrose sale in 1971]..." --Hill, pp. 184-185; Palau IV, 262; Sabin 11391; STC 16806, Boies Penrose sale 149; Streeter sale I, 26.
Provenance: George Wilbraham, armorial bookplate; J.C. McCoy, leather bookplate.
"Although relating principally to the Portuguese in India, China, and the East Indies [where Lopes de Castanheda lived for twenty years], this work contains interesting particulars of the Portuguese conquest of Brazil. The first book [all that was published] treats only the early part of Lopes de Castanheda's history, but it is the part most important in American history, as it includes Cabral's voyage [his discovery of Brazil in 1500] and others. Nothing more was ever printed in English or Spanish. Nicholas Lichfield, who dedicated the book to Sir Francis Drake...probably was Thomas Nicholas, the well-known translator of the Tudor era. This English edition is very rare [no copy at auction since the Penrose sale in 1971]..." --Hill, pp. 184-185; Palau IV, 262; Sabin 11391; STC 16806, Boies Penrose sale 149; Streeter sale I, 26.
Provenance: George Wilbraham, armorial bookplate; J.C. McCoy, leather bookplate.