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GOMES DE BRITO, BERNARDO. Historia Tragico-Maritima em que se escrevem chronologicamente os Naufragios que tiverão as Naos de Portugal. [16], 479, [1]; [16], 538 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 197x139 mm, 19th-century mottled sheep gilt; occasional marginal dampstaining and soiling, mainly in Volume 1, minor worming in blank lower margin of opening leaves in Volume 1, clean tears in V2 and 2K4 in Volume 2 crudely repaired with tissue on verso not impairing legibility. Lisbon: Officina da Congregação do Oratorio, 1735-36
first edition of a collection of 12 previously published narratives of shipwrecks during voyages between Portugal and India in the early era of Portuguese colonial expansion, apart from one on a voyage from Brazil. Alden 735/108; Borba de Moraes, pages 125-27 ("a classic of Portuguese literature"); Huntress 47C.
