OSÓRIO, D. Jerónimo; CASTANHEDA, Fernão Lopes de [et al.].- HISTOIRE | DE PORTVGAL, | CONTENANT LES ENTRE- | prises, nauigations, & gestes memorables des | Portugallois, tant en la conqueste des INDES | ORIENTALES par eux decouuertes. qu’és | guerre d’Afrique & d’autres exploits. depuis l’an | mil quatre cens nonãte six, sous Emmanuel pre- | mier, Ieã troisieme, & Sebastiã premier du nom...- A Paris: Chez Guillaume de la Nouë, 1581. [8], 680, [22] f.; 17 cm.- E. Parisian 16th century edition comprising, the first twelve books, the work “De rebus Emanuelis Regis”, by D. Jerónimo Osório (1506-1580), who would become the last bishop of Silves (1564-1577) and the first of the renewed diocese from the Algarve, based in Faro (1577-1580); it also includes the eight books of “História da India”, by Fernão Lopes de Castanheda (ca. 1500-1559) and some texts “d’autres historiens”. The translation was by the theologian and humanist Simon Goulart de Senlis (1543-1628), one of the representatives of French Protestantism. On the same date another edition of the same translation was published in Geneva. Slightly cropped copy with slight browning, but complete, solid and clean. Binding from the 17th/18th century, full sheepskin, a little worn, with minor damage to the top corner of the spine. Edition not mentioned in the main bibliographies and catalogues consulted, including Palau, Duarte de Sousa, Borba de Moraes, Samodães, etc. Brunet, IV, 249.