Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770 by Boxer, C.R - 1968

Oxford University Press, 1968. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing of the OUP edition, which is an authorized reprint (with corrections) of the second revised edition published by Martinus Nijoff in 1948. Burgundy cloth boards in pink dust jacket, burgundy endpapers, frontispiece and a few plate illustrations. No flaws found to book, dust jacket has minor fading at edges, light wrinkling at edges. "This book is not a history, but rather of story of the colony [Macao], centred round typical personalities of the time. Extra postage required for international or priority shipping, box will weigh 4 lbs.

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. Endpapers show yellowing. Some darkening of the dust jacket. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 297 pages .

Hague 1948, Nijhoff. Buff cloth, very bright, 297p., index illustrated, appendix, 16.5 x 25 cm., contents brilliantly clean & solid, 16 plates & maps. * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . . AN IMPORTANT SCHOLARLY RESOURCE ON EARLY MACAO . . * Covers the bay of the Goddess Ama & the City of the Name of God, "Red Hairs," visits to Nagasaki, Manila, spice, voyages to Japan, Black ships in Japanese art, Portuguese pilots in China Seas, 16th century shipping in Far Eastern waters. Fidalgos & Samurai: friends of Francis Xavier, Camoes. . Taipans from China to Peru, pine grove in the Pearl River. Jan Pieterszoon Coen, masters & slaves, Macao under the new regime. First Captain Genera Dom Francisco Mascarehas, religious persecution in Japan, trouble with Manila & Nagasaki. . Last Japan voyages, Lopo Sarmento, Peter Mundy & Manila Galleon, Muitsai in Macao, Jesuits, expulsion of Jesuits &c. . Portuguese in Japan, Tanegashima & Nagasaki, with map of… Read More

Hague 1948, Nijhoff. Buff cloth, very bright, 297p., index illustrated, appendix, 16.5 x 25 cm., excellent dust jacket in Mylar protector, contents brilliantly clean & solid. * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . . AN IMPORTANT SCHOLARLY RESOURCE ON EARLY MACAO . . * Covers the bay of the Goddess Ama & the City of the Name of God, "Red Hairs," visits to Nagasaki, Manila, spice, voyages to Japan, Black ships in Japanese art, Portuguese pilots in China Seas, 16th century shipping in Far Eastern waters. Fidalgos & Samurai: friends of Francis Xavier, Camoes. . Taipans from China to Peru, pine grove in the Pearl River. Jan Pieterszoon Coen, masters & slaves, Macao under the new regime. First Captain Genera Dom Francisco Mascarehas, religious persecution in Japan, trouble with Manila & Nagasaki. . Last Japan voyages, Lopo Sarmento, Peter Mundy & Manila Galleon, Muitsai in Macao, Jesuits, expulsion of Jesuits &c. . Portuguese in Japan, Tanegashima & Nagasaki,… Read More