Naufragio da Nao N. Senhora de Belem feyto na terra do Natal no cabo de Boa Esperanza, & varios sucesos, que nella passou a India no anno de 1633 Cabreyra, Joseph de

The shipwreck of the Belem, and the journey along the western coast of Africa with Father Lobo, carrying news from Ethiopia Cabreyra, Joseph de. Naufragio da Nao N. Senhora de Belem feyto na terra do Natal no cabo de Boa Esperanza, & varios sucesos, que nella passou a India no anno de 1633. 1636 [18th century contrefacon]. Lisbon. Lourenzo Craesbeeck. 8vo, (190 x 140 mm). 69 pp., 1 ff. Contemporary style calf by Imperio Graça, raised bands to spine, tolled in gilt, red lettering piece. Excellent copy, fresh and clean, with only minor scattered foxing spots. Second edition. Cabreyra (d. 1638) was Captain of the Nossa Senhora de Belem, which wrecked off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope in 1635 whilst returning to Portugal from India. The shipwreck news was widespread, not only for the losses, but for it carried a famous passenger: Jesuit Father Jerome Lobo, who after spending over 9 nine years in Abyssinia was returning to Europe; Lobo is the author of "A short relation of the River Nile, of its source and current" and was coming to report on the failure of the Ethiopian mission and the expulsion of the missionaries. The work narrates the events prior to the event, the hardships, and arrangements carried out by Cabreyra following the shipwreck: the building of smaller vessels to carry the survivals, securing the provisions and the dispatches from the King of Portugal, the journey along the western coast of Africa towards Angola -where the nearest Portuguese port was- amongst other interesting affairs. Another edition was also published in 1636 by Craesbeck, with a different collation, priority between both hasn't be established; this work was later included by Brito in the Historia Tragico-Maritima. Extremely rare, no copies have appeared at auction in the last 50 years. Mendelssohn, pp. 242. Payans, 222.