- 3079
Acuña, Cristobal (1597-c. 1676), and others.
Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 GBP
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Description
- Voyages and Discoveries in South America. The first up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil... by Christopher D'Acugna. The second up the River of Plata, and thence by land to the mines of Potosi by Mons. Acarete. The third from Cayenne into Guiana, in search of the Lake of Parima, reputed the richest place in the world by M. Grillet and Bechamel. Done into English from the originals, being the only accounts of those parts hitherto extant. London: S. Buckley, 1698
first edition in english, 3 parts in one volume, 8vo (188 x 112mm.), viii, 176, (169)-(176), 177-190; [2 (title)], 79; [1(blank)], [4 (including title)], 68pp., illustration: 2 folding engraved maps ("the course of the river of Amazons" and "the provinces of Paraguay and Tucuman"), binding: contemporary mottled calf, spine in six compartments with raised bands gilt, upper cover and preliminary blank detached, lower joint split, spine ends chipped, somewhat rubbed
Literature
Wing V746; Sabin 152; Borba de Moraes p.12; Palau 2487; Hill pp.311-312