Bocarro, Antonio.
Decada 13 da historia da India.
Lisboa [Lisbon]: Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias, 1876.
First edition. Tall quartos. Part 1: xxii, 374 [blank leaf]. Part 2: viii, 377–805. In Portuguese. Antonio Bocarro, the chief archivist on the Portuguese colony of Goa, in India, wrote this history of the "thirteenth decade" (1612-1617) of the Portuguese presence in the far east but it remained a little known manuscript until this publication by the Academia Real. A useful source on early seventeenth-century Africa, India, Burma, and Macao.
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Bocarro's history covers the vice-royalty of D. Jeronymo de Azevedo, or 1612 to 1617, with discursions into earlier Portuguese history in the East. Bocarro writes about the hostilities in Syriam (Burma), fomented in part by the mecenary Phillippe de Brito, and he reports on the increasing resistance Jesuit missionaries faced in Japan (they would ultimately be expelled in 1614).
Other sections offer histories of Macao and Portuguese settlements in Mozambique, along the Zambezi River. An index, with short definitions, of place and personal names is appended at the end. Uncommon.
Two volumes, bound in red half-leather and decorated paper. Spine stamped in gilt, with (false) raised bands. Original front wrappers of each part bound in. Bookplate and private libary labels in each volume, some scuffing to leather a light fading to paper covers. An attractive, well-preserved set.
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