Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770: Fact and fancy in the history of Macao

by C. R Boxer

$275 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian · No longer available

First edition

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1948 Large 8vo. xii, 297pp. Map on end-papers, and 16 plates. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a very good copy. Ink signature at front, old price in pencil £240 . § First edition. The book is not a history of Macao, but, as the subtitle implies, a study of key episodes and periods connected with the story of the colony, centered around typical personalities at the time. Readers unfamiliar with Portuguese may care to be

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