ANDRADE,Jacinto Freire de.- VIDA | DE | DOM JOÃO | DE | CASTRO | QVARTO VISO-REY | DA INDIA. | ESCRITA POR IACINTO FREYRE | DE ANDRADA.- Lisboa: Officina Craesbeeckiana, 1651.- [8], 444, [48] p.: il. ; 26 cm.- E. First edition of the 17th-century biography of the fourth viceroy of India, considered a model of good Portuguese language and reprinted several times in different formats until the first half of the 20th century. Illustrated edition with architectural frontispiece, portrait of D. João de Castro (at the beginning of the text) and xilography (p. 59) representing a cross of Saint Thomas. Frontispiece and last page of the index shorter (from another copy). Copy slightly handled, with two handwritten additions on the title page, but complete, with good margins and generally clean. Full flexible parchment binding, almost detached from the body. Inocêncio III, p. 239. Samodães, 1305. Arouca, A 352