# 49591

SOUZA, Caetano Francisco de

Instituições portuguezas de educação e instrucção no Oriente. Estudios historicos archeologicos.

$750.00 AUD

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Bombay : no English and Guzerati “Job Printing” Press, 1890. Large octavo, early 20th-century quarter mottled sheep over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt decoration and two crimson leather title-pieces lettered in gilt; top edge stained red; original printed wrappers bound in (foxed, small crude repair at top of front wrapper); pp. [2], xvi, 346; occasional light spotting, a good copy.

First and only edition of this work which provides a historical overview of the Jesuit presence in the East; contains an account of monuments such as the Seminario de Bom Jesus; has a brief summary of the history of printing in Goa; and examines in detail the educational establishments of Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Chaul, Baçaim, and other places of Portuguese influence.

Scholberg, p. 194 (FE38), calls for xvi, 341 pp. (i.e. without noting the index and errata leaves).