Anyone have any info on this person? I know he wrote allot about figs and had illustrations on hard to find varieties. Have googled but no luck anyone know his full name or any books by him?

BOBONE, ÁLVARO L. A.  (Bobone, Álvaro de Lencastre Araújo)

1932. Contribuição para o estudo taxonômico da espécie Ficus carica L. 127 pp.
Here is the piece of work, from the national library of Portugal:

http://tinyurl.com/y9x8xe2

Wow your good. How the H3ll did you find it. Thank you

I can't seem to get my hands on the actual paper, so I'm not that good!  I'm sure it's just a matter of me not reading/translating well enough.

How I found it ... Well, I searched Google for: Bobone fig

The 9th result was paper #391-296 "Fig Varieties: A Monograph" at UC Davis.  Throughout this paper there are references to Bobone's paper written in 1932.  Being that they cited it so much, it was bound to be in the cited works at the end, so I flipped to page 498 where the title of his paper is named.

I then searched Google for the majority of the paper name, which got me to the National Library of Portugal.  They have a glitch in their database, so it took some rooting around to get the correct search pair (thus finding the paper).  I wound up searching on the partial title of the paper, rather than the author, because when you search on Bobone's full name, you get some weird papers regarding communications circa 1979 that have nothing to do with figs at all.  I think someone input the information incorrectly.  I searched for other documents with "ficus carica" in the title and other things, but found nothing.

When I found the book via the title, I came back and updated the post here.  However, I see that you need to login to the site, possibly to download the documents, and after reading the help (again, in my broken Brasilian Portuguese), it seems that the work may not be downloadable from their site even after logging in - if it is, let me know, I would like to read it.  For what it's worth, I have been working for a Swiss-headquartered international company for many, many years and I'm fair-to-good at translating French, Spanish and German, and have some limited interaction with Italian and Portuguese.  I love reading international literature, may not be able to speak or write the language worth a dang, but I like to at least try to read it, and ask for help from colleagues when I get stuck.  ;)

Hey Nelson, this might also help you in your quest for info on Portuguese fig varieties (two heads are better than one!):

Go to the BISA/CERES archive at http://diana.isa.utl.pt/ceres/jsp/system/win_main.jsp

Click the Interrogação icon at the top of the page (magnifying glass icon).

This will bring up the search criteria page.  In the Descritores box, set the dropdown to 'igual' (equals) and type FICUS CARICA into the box, then hit the Procurar button at the top of the criteria box.  (Note: the search term FIGO also brings up even more articles, one from the last few months which discusses fig pollination in detail)

You will get just over 60 results of papers on figs.  If you go to the 'Ano da publicação' column and click the blue downward-pointing arrow, it will sort by  date - Notice that Bobone's paper is at the top after doing this.

If you click through on that Bobone paper about figs, then click his name in the "Autor" selection, you will see he wrote two other papers, one is about types of oranges in Portugal, the other is about pruning apples.

You can add the papers to a cart system, but I'm still not 100% sure how to obtain access.  Still working on it!!

Thanks Jason your instructions were great.