Charles R. Boxer, An Uncommon Life. Soldier - Historian - Teacher - Collector - Traveller.
Panaji, Goa: Fundacao Oriente [Art center], 2001. 616p., giant softbound in 11x8.5 inch frenchfold wraps, black field titled in white and blue; item is a solid textblock of clay-coated alkaline paperstock, illustrated from family albums and scrapbooks, and mainstream journalism. Soil on top-edge of text block. Very good.
Boxer made reputations in several fields, most especially (for our purposes) in research literature on the Portuguese seaborne empire, which lasted four hundred years from 1415 CE.
Cat.No: 264542
Price: $150.00
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