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VASCONCELOS (Luís Mendes de). DO SITIO de Lisboa. Lisboa. 1608.

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VASCONCELOS (Luís Mendes de)
DO SITIO de Lisboa. Dialogos de Luys Mendez de Vasconcelos. Lisboa: Na Officina de Luys Estupiñan, 1608.

A-Q8, ¶8; [8], 242, [22] pp.; 135 mm.

FIRST EDITION of this esteemed and important work on commerce in Lisbon written in the form of a dialogue between a Politician, a Soldier and a Philosopher. Inocêncio identifies the three characters with the Count of Castanheira, minister of D. João III, Martim Afonso de Sousa, former governor of India and D. Jerónimo Osório, bishop. Rare.

¶ Inocêncio, v. 5, p. 306; P.Matos, 396; Sousa Câmara, 1908; Travel and Exploration, 1690