CENTELLAS, Joaquim de.- LES | VOYAGES ET | CONQVESTES | DES ROYS | DE PORTVGAL ES INDES D'O- | rient, Ethiopie, Mauritanie d'Afrique & Euro- | pe: auec l origine, sucession & descente de | leurs Maisons, iusques au Serenis. Se- | bastian, nagueres atterré en la | bataille qu'il eust contre le | Roy de Fez. | PLVS, | Vne description des Pays: Causes & progres des guerres | ... | Le tout recueilly de fideles tesmoings, & memoi- | res du Sieur Ioachin de Centellas, Gentil hõ- | me Portugaiz.- A Paris: Par Iean d'Ongoys, Imprimeur, 1578.- [3], 4-60 f.; 15 cm.- E. A very rare 16th-century booklet, only briefly mentioned by Manuel Bernardes Branco (Portugal and foreigners, volume I, no. 242, no edition) and Bernardo Xavier Coutinho (Bibliographie, no. No. 220). Work dedicated by the printer Jean d’Ongoys to Pierre Seguier, “Sieur d’Autry, et lieutenant civil en la prevosté de Paris”. With great interest for the sebastic question, it includes important information about the battle of Alcácer Quibir, dating the privilege of November 10, 1578, that is, just 98 days after the tragic occurrence. Good binding, full morocco, signed by the Parisian bookbinder F. Bouché, with multiple borders in gold on the covers, roll on the squares and gilt edges. Provenance: lot 220 from Silva’s/Pedro de Azevedo auction, May 1999 (same copy).