SAN ROMAN, Frei Antonio de, O.S.B.- HISTORIA GENERAL | DE LA YNDIA ORIENTAL | Los Descobrimientos, y Conquistas que han hecho las Armas | de Portugal, enel Brasil, y en Otras partes de Africa, y de la | Asia; y de la Dilatacion del Santo Euangelio por | aquellas grandes Prouincias, desde | sus principios hastª el Año de | 1557...- En Valladolid: por Luis Sanchez, Año. 1603.- [28], 804 (aliás 794), [18] p.: 1 portada grav.; 28 cm.- E. Important account of the discoveries and conquests of the Portuguese from 1416 to 1557, with extensive references to Brazil and the New World. The author (15th/16th century), a Spanish Benedictine, born in the city of Palencia, also published, on the same date and in the same city of Valladolid, a description of the «Jornada y muerte del Rey D. Sebastian». The copy retains the rare copperplate print architectural title (signed Juan Bapª Morales, fe), with an image of the author on the pediment, the title and coat of arms of the Constable of Castile, Juan Fernandez de Velasco, to whom the work is dedicated. Lightly cropped copy (title tangentially shaved on the outer margin), with some browning, but complete and solid, strictly corresponding to the description of Palau and the BNP online copy. Samodães (2982) gives us an extensive and detailed description, which also matches the present copy. According to Salvá (3396), copies with a frontispiece are rare. Ownership of the period, on the lower margin of the cover; extensive old notes on the back of the last page. Recent binding, full parchment, with the title handwritten on the spine, according to the taste of the time. Palau, 293611 (important work). Borba de Moraes, p. 765. Auvermann, 201 (excessively rare).