COSTA, Manuel da.- PATRVI | ET NEPOTIS DE SVCCES | SIONE REGNI PORTVGALLIÆ | TRACTATA QVÆSTIO: VTRVM PATRVVS, | Regis filius secundo genitus annis maior:an | verò eiusdem Regis nepos etiam infans, | ex primogenito conceptus, praeferri | debeat. [...] | ITEM ORATIO FVNEBRIS IN EXEQVIIS | Serenissimi Portugalliae Regis IOANNIS. III. | ab eodem autore Conimbricae habita.- Conimbricæ: Apud Ioannes Barrerium Typographum Regium. M. D. L. VIII. [1558].- [8], 216 [i. é 212] p.; 19 cm.- E. Manuel da Costa (c.1510-1562), Portuguese poet, humanist and jurisconsult, born in Lisbon, was a student of Jerónimo Cardoso and Martim de Azpilcueta Navarro, in Coimbra, where he later taught. The work addresses the issue of succession to the throne since D. Sebastian was only three years old at the time of the death of his grandfather King D. João III, on June 11, 1557. The edition, indicating that the “Decimo Calendas Augusti”, includes in the final 16 pages the “Oratio funebris” given by the author, in Coimbra, at the funeral of the pious King, on June 25, 1557. Copy a little cropped, but clean, with restoration on the outer margin of the title page, without affecting the text. Recent binding, full sheepskin, with the seal of the Oporto workshop Invicta Livro, with plant decoration, in the Renaissance manner, on both covers. Anselmo, 149. BN (16th century), 206. Sebastica, 281. King D. Manuel II Library, 133 (Res. 139 Adq.).