[Portugal] Corte real, J. Naufragio, e lastimoso successo da perdiçao de Manoel de Sousa de Sepulveda,

dona Lianor de Sá, sua Mulher, e Filhos, Vindo da India para este Reyno Náo chamada o Galiaõ grande S. Joaõ, que se perdeo no cabo de Boa-Esperança, na terra do Natal; E a Peregrinaçao, que tiveraõ rodeando terras de Cafres, mais de 300 legoas, té sua morte. Lisbon, Na Typografia Rollandiana, 1783, 2nd ed., XIV,(1),351 p., cont. limp overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo. Upper blank corner of leaf E8 (p. 75-76) torn out without loss of text, occas. stains, some tiny wormholes at the end, some other minor inner and outer imperfections.

Second edition of a very popular contemporary Portuguese shipwreck account, first published at Lisbon, 1594. Inspired by a passage in the Lusiads, the poem (composed in heroic verse and octave rhyme), it tells of the tragic shipwreck (off the coast of Natal in 1552) of the great galleon Saint John, carrying Manoel de Souza de Sepulveda, his wife Donna Leonora, and their children on their way from India to Portugal. The author was a soldier who fought alongside Dom Sebastido, King of Portugal, on his doomed expedition to Morocco in 1578 (the subject of Donizetti's opera Dom Sebastien of 1843).