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Exploration and Travel Literature
Lot 24

RODRIGUEZ DE VILLASEÑOR, MANUEL. 1630-1684.
El Marañon, y Amazonas. Historia de los Descubrimientos, entradas, y Reducción de Naciones ... en las dilatadas Montañas, y mayores rios de la America. Madrid: Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, 1684.

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RODRIGUEZ DE VILLASEÑOR, MANUEL. 1630-1684.

El Marañon, y Amazonas. Historia de los Descubrimientos, entradas, y Reducción de Naciones ... en las dilatadas Montañas, y mayores rios de la America. Madrid: Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, 1684.
Folio (280 x 195 mm). Half-title, woodcut initials and tailpiece ornaments. Late 19th/early 20th century quarter calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, corners bumped, old ownership signature and obscured library stamp on title, margins trimmed into headers on some pages, dampstaining to several leaves at back, old repairs to outer margins of last 3 leaves of text, spotting and browning throughout.

FIRST EDITION of this important work on the exploration of the Amazon Basin, complete with the "Compendio Historial" not found in all copies. Published without permission of the Congregation de Propaganda Fides, it was placed on the index of forbidden works. It nonetheless contains the best account of the discovery of the Amazon, and of the work of Jesuits in Brazil. Borba de Moraes, pp 743-4; Brunei IV, 1349; Palau 273201; Sabin 72524.

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