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Fidalgos 1550-1770 History of Macao by Boxer

Title: Fidalgos in the Far East 1550-1770: Fact and Fancy in the History of Macao.
Author: Boxer, C. R.
Description: xii, 297 pp. 16 plates including frontispiece. (8vo) 9½x6, cream cloth with vignette and title printed in black and red, dust jacket and endpapers illustrated with map of Asia. First Edition.C. R. Boxer was a Camões Professor of Portuguese at London University (King's College). Fidalgo is from the Portuguese word, filho de algo, which translates to "son of someone," more specifically, son of someone of significance.
Heading: zzfPlace Published: The Hague, [Netherlands]
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
Date Published: 1948