Voyages.- Castanheda (Fernão Lopes de) The first Booke of the Historie of the Discoverie and Conquest of the East Indias, enterprised by the Portingales..., first edition in English, translated by Nicholas Lichfield, woodcut title border, woodcut initials, many with historiation, printed mostly in black letter, lacking final colophon leaf T4, title and following leaf A2 (dedication to Drake) seemingly supplied from another shorter copy, with title laid down and A2 remargined, very small puncture mark to head of gutter throughout, a few minor marginal defects or repairs, L1 with 2 very short tears within text with loss to few letters, T3 with marginal repairs and small number in purple ink to foot, early ink note to head of 2T3v, a few later marginal ink annotations, title soiled, light browning, the occasional spot or light stain, still a good copy generally, 20th century blue morocco, some faint spots, spine a touch faded, [Sabin 11391 ("A most interesting and rare book"); Hill 1035; STC 16806], 4to (191 x 125mm.), Thomas East, 1582.*** The first edition in English, dedicated to Sir Francis Drake. "Although relating principally to the Portuguese in India, China, and the East Indies, this work contains interesting particulars of the Portuguese conquest of Brazil. The first book [all that was published] treats only the early part of Lopes de Castanheda's history, but it is the part most important in American history, as it includes Cabral's voyage [his discovery of Brazil in 1500] and others. Nothing more was ever printed in English or Spanish. Nicholas Lichfield...probably was Thomas Nicholas, the well-known translator of the Tudor era. This English edition is very rare..." (Hill 1035). Provenance: James Stevens Cox (bookplate).