ANDRADE, Jacinto Freire de .-VIDA | DE | DOM JOÃO | DE | CASTRO | QVARTO VISO-REY | DA INDIA. | ESCRITA POR IACINTO FREYRE | DE ANDRADA.- Lisboa: na Officina Craesbeeckiana, 1651.- [8], 443, [49] p.: 1 frontispício, 1 retrato, 1 grav.; 26 cm.- E. Original edition of the most important work of the author (1597-1657), priest, historian and poet, born in Beja, considered a model of good Portuguese language, having known at least one more edition in the 17th century (1671), seven in the 17th, and six in the 19th century. Illustrated edition with an engraved frontispiece, a portrait of D. João de Castro (at the beginning of the text) and a woodcut engraving inserted on p. 59, representing a cross of St. Thomas. Copy slightly cropped, with occasional minor blemishes. Frontispiece a little dusty, with manuscript ownership mark in the upper margin, dated 1811. Solid 20th century binding (wooden folders?), full skin (pork?), with blind tooling on the covers (multiple compartments) and spine, with new endpapers. Inocêncio, III, p. 239. Samodães, 1305. Arouca, A 352.