Corografia brazilica, ou relação historico-geografica do reino do Brazil
Subtitle: composta e dedicada a Sua Magestade fidelissima
By: por hum presbitero secular do Gram Priorado do Crato
Contributors: Caminha, Pero Vaz de, 15th cent; Brazil
Publisher: Na Impressão Regia
Published: 1817
Place of publication: Rio de Janeiro
Language: por
Notes: Letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha written in Porto Seguro (Bahia, Brazil) dated May 1, 1500 about the discovery of Brazil here published for the first time on p. 12-34, v. 1.

Includes alvará allowing the author the exclusive right to print and trade the Corografia for 14 years.

Portuguese coat of arms on title pages.

Includes indexes at end on both volumes.

Errata statements in both volumes.

Vol. 1: [12], 402, [6], 403-420, [2] p.; v. 2: [4], 379, [5] p.

Page 215 misnumbered 315, v. 2.

Signatures: v. 1: *⁴ 2*² A-3G⁴ 3H² (*1, 2*2, P2 versos blank; 3E4 and 3H2 blank). V. 2: *² A-3B⁴ (*1, *2, 2Y3, 3B2, 3B4 versos blank)

Camargo & Moraes. Bib. da Impressão Régia do Rio de Janeiro, I, 547.

Valle Cabral. Annaes da Imprensa Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, 464.

Rodrigues, J.C.  Bib. brasiliense, 582.

Sabin 11640.

Silva, Innocencio da.  Diccionario bib. portuguez, V, p. 367.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary calf.