Auction 506
Guedes Rodrigues' Private Collection
By Ecléctica Leilões
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May 19, 2023
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LOT 4:
ÁLVARES (Francisco). VERDADEIRA Informação das Terras do Preste João das Índias. Lisboa. 1889.
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ÁLVARES (Francisco). VERDADEIRA Informação das Terras do Preste João das Índias. Lisboa. 1889.
ÁLVARES (Francisco)
VERDADEIRA Informação das Terras do Preste João das Índias. Nova Edição (Conforme a de 1540 ilustrada de diversos facsimiles). Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1889.
[4], 208 pp., 9 est.: il.; 300 mm.
First reprint of this important testimony of one of the Ambassadors that D. Manuel sent to the Kingdom of Ethiopia, the famous Prester João, to whom, years before, D. João II had sent Pero da Covilhã to obtain important information for the sea voyages that led Vasco da Gama to India. Half French leather binding, retaining paperback covers, ex-libris of João G. de Sousa. Rare.
