Camoes' Grotto in Luis de Camoes Garden, Macau, China. Former home of exiled Portuguese poet Luis de Camoes, bought by the British East India Company. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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