DIOGO DO COUTO - ca. 1542-1616 Decadas da Asia (Reports from Asia) Reports from Asia, dealing with the seas which the Portuguese discovered, armadas they destroyed, armies they have won and of heroic actions and war exploits in the conquest of the Orient. Couto, Diogo do.--Occidental Lisboa: at Domingos Gonçalves' printing workshop, 1736.-3 2 volumes.; 29 inches.-E. A reprint together of the reports IV, V (volume I), VI (volume II), VII, VIII and IX (volume III) by Diogo do Couto (1542-1616), chronicler and custodian of Torre do Tombo. The decade IV, in fact the first of the author, is the continuation of the third by João de Barros. It was only in 1615 that the fourth report of Barros was published, and that there were two fourth quarters of different authors who, although referring to the same period, had different contents. The nineteenth report was printed here for the first time. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - [32], 605, [1 br.] P .; II - [14], p. 607 to 931, [1 br.], 75, [1 br.] P .; III - [16], 625 p. The volumes I and II are bound in a single volume. Traces of moth work on the inner margin of the last four leaves of Volume III. In addition, a slightly trimmed copy, but very clean, keeping balanced margins. Entire calf bindings of the time, different with signs of moth work on the spines. Innocent, II, p. 154. Monteverde, 1900. Not mentioned by Samodães or Ameal.