LAFITAU, Pe. Joseph François, S.J.- Histoire des decouvertes et conquestes des portugais dans le Nouveau Monde.- Paris: Chez Saugrain Pere; Jean-Baptiste Coignard Fils, Imprimeur du Roi, 1733-1734.- 4 vols.: 15 gravuras, 1 mapa desdobr.; 16 cm.- E. Father Lafitau (1681-1746), Jesuit missionary, historian and scientist, spent six years in Canada, where he studied the Iroquois Indians, and he was also indebted to the discovery of ginseng. Second edition, enlarged in relation to the first, published in the same year, consisting of only two volumes. This is also illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece (representing Lisbon and the Armada of Indias) and 14 folding engravings, copperplate print, portraits and views of strongholds in Africa and India, namely Goa, Daman, Diu, Chaul, Vasai (Baçaim), Mombassa, Kilwa Kisiwani, Sofala, etc. It also includes a larger world map (28x48 cm), with the conquests and discoveries of the Portuguese. The collation of each one of the volumes is as follows: I - [6], XL, 432 p.: 1 allegorical frontispiece, 1 unfolded map, 4 unfolded engrav.; II - [2], 381, [79] p.: 2 unfolded grav.; III - [2], 512 p.: 2 unfolded engrav.; IV - 388, [147, 1 br.] p.: 6 unfolded engrav. Complete and clean copy, lightly cropped (carmine edge), with all engravings well folded. Bookmark typographed by J. P. Petit in all volumes. Contemporary bindings, full sheepskin, preserving the original endpapers in marbled paper. Samodães, 1679. Duarte de Sousa, 457. Auvermann, 123 (for the first edition).