SAN ROMAN Y RIBADENEYRA, 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, 1603.- [28], 804 (i e. 794), [18] p.; 29 cm.- E. Rare edition from the beginning of the 17th century reporting the discoveries and conquests of the Portuguese from the second quarter of the 15th century to the third of the 16th century, with extensive references to Brazil, but also to Angola, the Persian Gulf, East Africa, India, Malacca, China, Japan and the New World. The author (15th/16th century), a Spanish Benedictine, born in 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 copper plate print architectural portal (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 prayer is dedicated. The edition also includes two other engravings inserted in the text, respectively on pages. 225 and 594. Copy slightly cropped and with slight browning; some water stains (tidal) in the last 10 sheets of text and colophon. The printing of the frontispiece is weak, but the copies that preserve it are rare. Entire parchment contemporary binding, with the indication COLEGIO, at the foot of the spine, preserving the original ties and endpapers. Modern protective case. Samodães (2982) gives us an extensive and detailed description, which exactly matches the present copy and also matches the BNP copy. Palau, 293611 (important work). Borba de Moraes, p. 765 (very rare). Auvermann, 201 (excessively rare).