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Rilegato. Condition: molto buono. prima edizione. A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS OF HISTORIC INTEREST FROM THE COLONY S ARCHIVES. THE COMPLETE FIRST SERIES IN THE RARE FIRST EDITION. [JOURNAL - MACAO ARCHIVES]. Arquivos de Macau: boletim do Arquivo Histórico de Macau Vol. 1 [-3]. Macau, Impresa Nacional, 1929-1931. 2500 FIRST EDITION. Large 4to, 3 vols, with numerous plates, facsims., and tables. Original coloured wrappers preserved. Elegantly bound in half leather with decorative endpapers made of fancy sprinkled paper. Issued monthly. None published Sept. 1930-Mar. 1931. Very good. Undoubtedly, this work provided a relevant service to research on the history of the regions bathed by the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, at a time when the Historic Archive of Macau did not yet exist as an institution dedicated to collecting, storing and preserving documents concerning the history of the region. The work contains a huge amount of important historical documents, which were rescued from the collections in which they laid without the minimum conditions for conservation. A ten-year break separates this first series of issues from the second one; times were difficult, since it was the middle of WWII. Indeed, the publication of the second series lasted only one year (1941). The third series appeared in February 1964. Luís Gonzaga Gomes was responsible for the National Library of Macau and became the main promoter of the Macau Archives (3rd Series, vols. I to XXXII, 1964-1979). Publication resumed from 1981 to 1988 for the final fourth series. Most US university libraries that hold a copy of this work have only the reprint, except for Berkeley, Cornell, Indiana.