[ORDEM DE NOSSA SENHORA DO CARMO].- Compendio das Chronicas da Orde[m] de Nossa Senhora do Carmo. 1572. Primeira parte do Compe[n]dio de Chronicas da Ordem da muito bemauenturada sempre virgem Maria do monte do Carmo, com exposiçam da Regra da dita Ordem [...] Confirmada per muytos & mui antigos summos Pontifices, pelos Ordinarios & Direito: agora nouamëte copillado per Frei Simão Coelho, Mestre em Theologia, professo da dita Ordem, & Moesteiro de nossa Senhora do Carmo de Lixboa...- [Lisboa]: Per Antonio Gonçaluez, 1572.- [20], 220 p.: 1 gravura; 28 cm.- E. This is the only published part of the four that the author is believed to have left in manuscript. The compiler, Father Simão Coelho (1514-1606), studied at the Universities of Salamanca and Siena; he was prior of the convents of Moura and Lisbon, eventually becoming provincial of the Order. Father Balbino Velasco Bayon, in his History of the Carmelite Order in Portugal (Lisbon, Paulinas, 2001), states that this is the first printed work concerning the history of the Carmelite Order, a book of great erudition and a true bibliographic rarity. The edition features a frontispiece with four xylographic stripes, framing an extensive summary of the work, with the title printed on a cartouche in the upper stripe. This is followed by a full-page xylographic engraving with a blank verso, representing the coat of arms of the Order. Working copy, but complete, heavily trimmed, with severe burns (repaired) on the upper outer corners of the entire volume, occasionally affecting the typographical area, particularly on the title page. Stamp of the Azevedo House on the engraving (lot no. 787 of the auction held in 1921/22) and ex-libris of Victor d’Avila Perez (lot no. 1815 of the auction held in 1939/40); both descriptions already include the defects briefly described. 19th-century binding, full sheepskin, with imperfections in the covers and spine. Inocêncio, VII, p. 275 (I knew of only three copies, but apparently I was unaware of the engraving since he does not mention it). Anselmo, 695. National Library (16th Century), 541. Biblioteca de D. Manuel II, 320.