Macao : a short handbook. (Presentation copy)

A$400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Macao : Information and Tourist Department, 1963. First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the half-title, With compliments and every good wish, from J. M. Braga . Octavo (225 x 160 mm), later marbled boards with gilt-lettered black morocco title label to front; pp. 64, with 27 b/w photographic illustrations, and a folding map; an excellent copy. An official guide to Macao, written by Macao bibliophile, historian and journalist José Maria Braga (1897-1988), founder of the colony s first daily newspaper, Diario de Macau .

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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