CHAVES, Jerónimo de.- CHRONOGRAPHIA | O REPORTORIO DE LOS TIEM- | pos, el mas copioso y preciso que hasta ahora | ha salido a luz- | CPMPVESTO POR HIERONYMO | de Chaues Astrologo y Cosmographo. | [gravura xilográfica] | Añadio se le en esta vltima impression vna Tabla perpetua para saber las Lunas | nueuas: y otra regla y Tabla perpetua para saber la hora de la marea: y assi | mismo otra tabla perpetua de las fiestas mouibles. | Con lice[n]cia del cõsejo general de la sancta Inquisiciõ, y Ordinario. | CON PRIVILEGIO.- Fue impresso em Lisboa: por Antonio Ribero. Anno. 1576.- [8], 188, [2] f.: il.; 20 cm.- E. Jerónimo de Chaves (1523-1574), learned mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and Spanish polyglot historian, born in Seville. The author's first and main work, the most widespread, originally published in Seville (in 1548), with eight editions in the 16th century, of which this is the sixth and first Portuguese edition. The work is divided into four parts, all of which are illustrated with woodcut figures. The first concerns time and its divisions; the second, of the world and its parts, including the sky, with its different regions and zodiac signs; the third, the diversity of calendars and the variation of mobile holidays, including eclipses of the sun and moon; the fourth and last, the agreement of medicine with astrology. On the verso of page 188, the colophon, with the place and printer not mentioned on the cover, followed by the date. The copy, slightly cropped and with a slight browning, has some lines censored at the time (crossed out) and a fold-out engraving at the beginning, representing the geocentric system, which does not belong to the edition. Handwritten property and purchase inscription (dated 1867) on the title page. Full 19th-century flecked sheepskin binding, with gold closed panels on the spine. Anselmo, 930. Palau, 67455. National Library (16th century), 159. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 111.