[PEDRO DE SOUSA CASTELO BRANCO]:RELLACAO DO SUCESSO QUE TEVE A ARMADA VENEZA ONIDA CON AS ESQUADRAS AUXILIARES DE PORTUGAL E OUTROS PRINCIPES CATHOLICOS NA COSTA DA MOREA CONTRA O PODER OTHOMANO. MESSINA (Sicily) 1717 FIRST and only edition, in 8vo, unbound as issued and preserved in modern special made cover, text clean and bright, complete and in very good plus condition. Pedro de Sousa Castelo Branco (1663-1735) was a distinguished Portuguese nobleman and high ranking military officer. After the complete collapse of the Venetians in Morea and the Ionian islands in 1715, the Venetian army withstood only in Corfu (the Ottoman campaign there failed in 1716), but they were unable to counter attack, although the Austrians crushed the Ottomans in the Balkan front.So, they had asked for help from many other Catholic states and finally one fleet with Venetian, portuguese and Papal vessels counter attacked in 1717 and was able to retake the Ionian islands and several fortified places in continental Greece (as Preveza, Parga,Vonitsa etc). It was the very first (and last) time that a Portuguese fleet and army fought in Greece. The base of this Portuguese fleet was in Sicily. After the successful campaign of 1717, castelo Branco, who was the commander of the Portuguese fleet, published in Messina an account of this Portuguese campaign in Greece to inform the Portuguese public for the victories of the Portuguese army in Greece It has been separately published by Vittorino Massei and was dedicated to Felipe Tana, marques de Entreives, a Savoyard-Italian military officer who in 1717 was commander and governor of the city of Messina, the base of the Portuguese fleet during its operation in the Levant. An account with invaluable information. Very few eyewitness travel accounts by Portuguese for Greece and the Levant exist. No one for this first and last presence of Portuguese arms in Greece. No copy of this account seems to be saved in any Public Library worldwide. Of the utmost rarity