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[BRAZIL]. DE VASCONCELLOS, Simão (1597-1671). Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil… [Chronicle of the Society of Jesu in the State of Brazil…] Lisbon: A. J. Fernandes Lopes, 1865. 8vos. 2 volumes. Bound with half-titles. Modern quarter black cloth over marbled boards, spines stamped in gilt (small tape repairs to several pages in both volumes, several gutters cracked but repaired, library markings, some foxing, soiling in text). Good. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND AUGMENTED (technically the third edition). Text in Portuguese. “A fundamental book concerning the history of Brazil" (Borba). The first edition of 1663 is virtually unobtainable; a corrected and augmented edition was first published in 1864 – this second corrected edition was published a year later. An important history of the Jesuits in Brazil. Uncommon.