Chronica do felicissimo rei Dom Emanuel
By: composta per Damiam de Goes, dividida em quatro partes, das quaes esta he ha primeira
Publisher: em casa de Françisco Correa, impressor do serenissimo Cardeal Infante
Published: 1566
Place of publication: Em Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 138
Notes: Title pages for parts 2-4 read: Segunda [-Quarta e ultima] parte da Chronica do feliçissimo rei Dom Emanuel, composta per Damiam de Goes.

Part 2 dated: ahos dez dias de Septe[m]bro de 1566; part 3 dated: a hos xxiiij. dias do mes de Ianeiro de 1567.

Vignette on title pages: Coat of arms of Portugal, flanked by two angels, one of whom is supporting a cross of Christ, the other an armillary sphere.

Part 1 represented by the second issue (for more information see Moraes)

Signatures: Part 1: pi⁴ A-N⁸ O⁴ (pi 4, O4 blank); part 2: [horizontal leaf]⁴ A-I⁸ K⁴ ([horizontal leaf]4, K4 blank); part 3: [horizontal leaf]⁴ A-R⁸ S² ([horizontal leaf]4 verso, S2 verso blank); part 4: [horizontal leaf]⁴ A-N⁸ O¹° ([horizontal leaf]4 verso, O10 verso blank)

Errata (part 2: leaf [3] verso; part 3: leaf [4] recto; part 4: leaf [4] recto)

With author's autograph on title pages and stamped signature of the censor, Emanuel da Veiga, on versos of last leaf of parts 1-2.

Includes account of the discovery of Brazil by Cabral (part 1: chapter 55, leaves 51-52 recto) and of the voyages of Gaspar and Miguel Corte-Real to northern North America (part 1: chapter 66, leaves 65-66 recto)

Sabin 27686 (as "28686")

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 566/22.

Anselmo, A.J.  Bib. das obras impressas em Portugal no seculo XVI, 491.

Rodrigues, J.C.  Bib. Brasiliense, 804.

Moraes, P.B. de  Bib. Brasiliana (rev. and enl. ed.), 353-354.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks blank leaves pi4 and O4 in part 1, [horizontal leaf]4 and K4 in part 2. Gathering [horizontal leaf] in part 3 misbound: [horizontal leaf]1.4 followed by [horizontal leaf]2. 3.