SANTOS, Frei João dos, O.P.- ETHIOPIA ORIENTAL, | E VARIA HISTORIA DE COVSAS | notaueis do Oriente. | COMPOSTA POLLO PADRE FR. IOÃO | dos Santos da Ordem dos Pregadores | natural da Cidade de Euora.- Impressa no Conuento de S. Domingos de Euora: por Manoel de Lira impressor, 1609.- [8], 140 f.; 27 cm. Junto com: -----.- VARIA HISTO | RIA DE COVSAS NO- | TAVEIS DO ORIENTE. | E da Christandade que os Religiosos da | Orde[m] dos Prègadores nelle fizerão. | SEGVNDA PARTE...- Impressa no Conuento de S. Domingos de Euora: por Manoel de Lira. Anno de 1609.- [3, 1 br.], 123 f.; 27 cm.- E. An important account of missionary activity in the East, written by a Dominican who died in Goa, in 1622. The edition includes a beautiful copperplate printed architectural frontispiece, signed Bras Nvnes Fecit (Ernesto de Sousa, 1374) . The second part has its own pagination and a xilography frontispiece, being considered an autonomous species by the bibliographer João Arouca. Untrimmed copy, slightly used, with occasional restorations, namely on the first frontispiece. It is, however, complete and solid. Provenance: Silva’s / Pedro de Azevedo auction, November 2000, lot 736. Bound from the 20th century, entirely in rigid parchment, with “à la grotesque” gold tooling on the spine. Inocêncio, IV, p. 33. Samodães (with facsimile face), 3056. Ávila Perez, 7001. Palha, 4222. Palau, 300592. Arouca, S 176, 177.