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![BARROS AND COUTO, continued :— , (Covro ¥) Decada Qvarta da Asia . . por Diogo do Coyvto. . Iisboa . Pedro Crasbeeck . M.DCII (1602) When Couto wrote this Fourth Decade as the first volume of his continuation of Barros, he was unaware that Barros had left his own Fourth Decade in MS. (Couro v) Decada Qvinta da Asia . . por Diogo do Covto . . Em Lisboa. . Pedro Orasbeeck . Anno 1612 Woodcut portrait of Couto on the back of the title. (Couto vr) [Decada Sexta ] [ Lisboa, 1614] Almost all the copies were burnt, and the preliminary leaves had not yet. been printed when the fire took place. Consequently this volume consists of the text complete, foliated 1—236, without any title. The deficiency was never supplied afterwards. ‘(Couto vit) Decada Setima.. . : Him Insboa, por Pedro Crasbeeck . Anno 1616 Woodcut portrait of Couto on the back of the title. (Couro vit) Decada Ovtava ... Lisboa . A custa de Ioam da Costa, & Diogo Soarez . M.DC.UX XIII (1673) (Couto 1x) Decada Nona da Asia (inserted here from the edition of Couto’s Decadas, printed in 1736, in which Decade IX was published for the first time) Insboa . . Domingos Gonsalves .. M.DOC. XXXVI (Couto x) Da Asia de Diogo de Couto . . Decada Decima . . 2 vols. 12mo. Iisboa . . MDCCLXXXVIII (1788) This Decade was never printed except as part of the small edition in 24 vols. Lisboa, 1788. (Dscapa xt) Decada Undecima da Asia... , Tisboa . . MDCCLXX XVIII (1788) This is added from the small edition of 1788. The text is not Couto’s (which was lost) but a later compilation made to replace it in 1788. Mel. Frz. de Villa Real . . Small folio ‘Bm Pariz . Anno M.D C.XLV (1645) Only five books of the twelfth Decade were recovered by Manoel Fernandez de Villa-Real, who published them for tie first time in 1645, at Paris, where he was then residing as Portuguese Consul and Minister. (He was rewarded seven years later by being put to death at an Auto-da-Fe for suppose‘ Judaical heresy.) morocco, gilt edges, and 3 vols. 12mo. bound in red morocco, with royal arms on the sides; from the Salva library 1552-1788 89 ANOTHER SET OF FIRST EDITIONS OF THE SAME: Decades J--IV, IV— VIII, XII in 10 vols. folio, calf 1552-16738 This collection purposely omitted Decades IX, X, and XI, as they were not published in separate form but only as parts of later collective editions. A set similar to the second one above-mentioned was made up by Richard Heber at a cost of over £400. 90 BARROS AND COUTO.. First Epition of untrorm size. Decadas I— IV, IV—VIII, XII (to which are added 1X and XI in their first printed form, the Hleventh being inlaid to the size of the rest), together 12 vols. in 11, small folio, vellum 1628-73 (1602-16 and 1788) CONSISTING OF (1) Decada Primeira da Asia de Ioao de Barros: dos Feitos qve os Portvgyveses fezerao no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente Em Lisboa . . Impressa por Iorge Rodriguez . Anno de 1628 Second Edition of Decade I. (Il) Decada Segvnda. . Em Lisboa . . Iorge Rodriguez . . 1628 Second Edition of Decade II. (II) Decada Terceira . . Em Lisboa . . Iorge Rodriguez . . 1628 Second Edition of Decade III. ; (LV Barros) First Edition, as described i in the Salva copy, ante... 1615 (LV Couto) First Edition 1602 V, VI, VI, VIII. First Editions, as described in the Salva copy 1612-14-16-73 IX First Edition (from the edition of Couto printed in 1736) 1736 ' XI First Edition (from the first complete edition printed in 1788) inlaid 1788 XII First Edition Paris, 1645 91 BARROS, Decadas, 4 vols. sm. folio, calf, one of the vols. not wniform 1628-28-28-15 BW A ee | O08) 00 70 70 0 O 24 0 0 316 0](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30857867_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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