SOUSA, Pe.- Francisco de, S.J.- Oriente conquistado a Jesu Christo pelos Padres da Companhia de Jesus da Provincia ...

SOUSA, Pe.- Francisco de, S.J.- Oriente conquistado a Jesu Christo pelos Padres da Companhia de Jesus da Provincia de Goa.- Lisboa: Na Officina de Valentim da Costa Deslandes, 1710.- 2 vols.: 4 gravuras; 29 cm.- E., The author was born on the island of Itaparica (Bahia, Brazil) in 1649, having left for Goa in 1665, where he died in 1712. The first volume (first part) «...contèm os primeyros vinte, & dous annos desta Prouincia». The second (second part) “...contem o que se obrou desdo anno de 1564 atè o anno de 1585”. The third part was never published. The collation of each of the volumes is as follows: I - [36], 895, [1 br.] p.: 2 engravings; II - [28], 620 p.: 2 engravings. The two volumes preserve the four (different) engravings, two allegorical at the beginning of each part and two representing the author offering his work. Cropped volumes, with tangential damage to the engravings in the first volume; the two engravings in the second part have folded edges bent (to avoid cropping). Small antique ownership on the lower margin of both title pages: Ferrão(?). Recent bindings, full parchment, with ties and calligraphed titles on the spines. Inocêncio, III, p. 68 (These two volumes must be accompanied by four engraved prints). Borba de Moraes, p. 820 (very rare). Sommervogel, VII, p. 1405. Reiss & Auvermann, 819. BNP, Cota R 6238/9 A. (same collation).