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CASTANHEDA (Fernão Lopes de). HISTÓRIA do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses (1552-1561). The Hague. 1929. - CASTANHEDA (Fernão Lopes de) HISTÓRIA do Descobrimento e Conquista da Índia pelos Portugueses (1552-1561) . Thirty-one chapters of the los 'Livro IX' re-discovered and now published for the first time by C. Wessels S.J. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1929. XII, 76 pp., 1 est.: il.; 255 mm. This is the first edition of thirty-one chapters of Book IX, previously thought to be lost, of Fernão Lopes de Castanheda's History of the Discovery and Conquest of India by the Portuguese , published for the first time by the Dutch Jesuit C. Wessels. Castanheda had planned his chronicle in ten books, but only the first eight were printed during the author's lifetime (Coimbra, 1551-1554), with Book IX, dedicated to the more recent years of the Portuguese presence in India, remaining unpublished. Castanheda's work constitutes the first major printed chronicle of Portuguese expansion in Asia, and was one of the most widely disseminated in sixteenth-century Europe, with translations into Spanish, Italian, French, English, and German as early as the 16th century. This edition, prepared with a critical introduction by Wessels and published in The Hague by Martinus Nijhoff, recovers a significant part of this final book, essential for the complete reconstruction of the chronicle. A rare edition on the market, of great interest to the Portuguese historiography of the Discoveries. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate