Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS (BOIS, J.P.J. DU, ed.),
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome dix-neuvième: Suite des voyages, des découvertes et des établissemens en Amérique.
Description: Amsterdam, Van Harrevelt & Changuion, 1772. Nouvelle édition. 4to. X+(II)+502+(1) pp. Complete with 14 maps/plans (incl. 12 fold.) & 2 plts. (all engr.). Hardcover. Late 19th-century half calf with 2 gilt-lettered title labels on spine, marbled boards & endpapers. (Title, 1st & final blanks a bit browned, occas. waterst. to lower margin). VG. ¶ Incl. the voyage of Bartholomeus de las Casas and his settlement in Cumana (later Venezuela), voyages to South America by Verzzani, Jacques Cartier, Pizarro, Diego d'Almagro, Vacca de Castro, Blasco Nunez de Vela, Pierre de La Gasca, etc.; voyages to and descriptions of Panama; description of Peru & Chili, voyages to Peru by Correal, Frezier, de la Condamine, Velen & de la Rosa. - Maps/plans of South America, Gulf of Saint Lawrence (Cartier), Carthagena, Portobelo (Panama), Lima, Paraguay, Cusco, Quito, Amazon river, Santiago de Chile. - Sabin 65404. - Amsterdam quarto ed., mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions.

Keywords: Topography description of country people . French . Spanish maritime overseas. Latin America Panama Venezuela Peru Paraguay Chile d'exiles antoine francois abbe p.j. 1500 1700


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