Relation historique de la découverte de l'isle de Madere
By: Traduit du Portugais
Publisher: Chez Louis Billaine, au second pilier de la Grand'Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Cesar.
Published: 1671
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Description and travel; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Relation historique.
Work titles: Qual foy o azo com que se descobrio a ilha da Madeyra
Notes: First appeared as manuscript with title "Qual foy o azo co[m] que se descobrio a ilha da Madeyra", which appeared in Epanaphoras de varia historia portugueza / by Francisco Manuel de Mello under title: Descobrimento da ilha da Madeira. Anno 1420, Lisbon, 1660.

Another French edition was printed by Claude Barbin in Paris the same year.

Includes an account of João Gonçalves Zarco's disocovery of the Madeira Islands. Zarco was a Portuguese sailor and squire to Prince Henry the Navigator.

Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) ã⁸ A-O⁴⁻⁸ P-Q⁴

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 679.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, III: p. 208-209.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full speckled calf.