Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau,

Memoria o estabelecimento de Macau, escripta pelo Visconde de Santarem. Abreviada relação da embaixada que el-rei D. João V mandou ao imperador da China e Tartaria. Relatorio de Francisco de Assis Pacheco de Sampaio a el-rei D. José I dando conta dos sucessos da embaixada a que fora mandado à ĉorte de Pekim no anno de 1752. Publicação feita por Julio Firmino Judice Biker. Lisboa : Imprensa Nacional, 1879. Octavo, recent marbled papered boards with gilt-lettered black morocco title label to front; pp. 108; title with compliments stamp of the Portuguese Ministry of Colonies and later red stamp of the Faculty of Social Studies and Law, University of Lisbon; a very good copy.

First edition of this publication on the early history of the Portuguese in Macao, edited by the historian Julio Firmino Judice Biker. The first part is a memoir of the establishment of Macao, written by the Viscount of Santarém; the second part is an abridged account of the embassy that King João V of Portugal sent to the Chinese Emperor Yongzheng in 1725, which was led by Alexandre Metelo de Sousa e Meneses; and the third part is a report by Francisco de Assis Pacheco de Sampaio to King José I on the successes of his embassy to the Court of Beijing in the year 1752.