The Western Pioneers and their discovery of Macao.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. 8vo. Contemporary cloth binding, slightly stained, some light browning to title and last leaf, but overall a very good tight copy. Signed presentation (dated: May, 28, 1951) to Dr. Cheng Te-k'un with his ex-libris on front end-paper. 248pp. Macau, Impresa Nacional, 

The present title describes the economical, scientific and political circumstances leading to the foundation of Macao in Southern China. "The notes which follow first appeared as scattered articles in a little magazine, Renascimento, printed at Macao (1943-45), during the War, when shut off from the rest of the world and to while away the tedium of some idle hours, a number of fiends tried to entertain ane another and others who were prepared to read their effusions, by their contributions to that periodical. They are now published in a modiefied form with much additional matter." (Foreword). Cheng Te-k'un (aka Zheng Dekun, 1907-2001) was a famous Chinese archaeologist and curator of the West China University Museum at Chengdu in Sichuan. He left China and in due course built up the Mu-fei Library at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was lecturer in Far Eastern Art and Archaeology from 1951-66. 

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