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AGUIAR (Armando de). O MUNDO que os Portugueses Criaram. Lisboa. 1954. - AGUIAR (Armando de) O MUNDO que os Portugueses Criaram . 2.ª ed. Lisboa: Empresa Nacional de Publicidade, 1954. 648 pp.: il.; 310 mm. Second edition, published three years after the first (1951) and with the same pagination. The World that the Portuguese Created is a monumental work of popularization, dedicated to the testimonies and vestiges of the Portuguese presence in the world: places, monuments, personalities and communities of Portuguese origin or influence in the Atlantic archipelagos, the Americas, Africa and the East. With historical revision by Caetano Beirão and graphic design by Alfredo Calderon Dinis, this is a luxurious edition, printed on coated paper and profusely illustrated in the text and in extra-text, with photographs, portraits, engravings, coats of arms and reproductions of works of art, some of which are pasted onto thick paper, and with drawings by Fernando Cruz, Luís Osório and José Figueiredo Sobral. Ornamented with initial capitals, headpieces and endpapers. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate