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Peru - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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The seventeen years travels of Peter de Cieza, through the mighty kingdom of Peru, and the large provinces of Cartagena and Popayan in South America: from the city of Panama, on the isthmus, to the frontiers of Chile. Now first translated from the Spanish, and illustrated with a map, and several cuts.
Cieza de Léon, Pedro de, 1518-1554.Date: printed in the year MDCCIX. [1709]- Books
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A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing The Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: Their Customs and Manners; their Natural History, Mines, Commodities, Traffick with Europe, &c. By Monsieur Frezier, Engineer in Ordinary to the French King. Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the Coasts, Harbours, Cities, Plants, and other Curiosities: printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. With a postscript by Dr. Edmun Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay.
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773.Date: MDCCXVII. [1717]- Books
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A voyage to South America. Describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. Undertaken by command of the King of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, both captains of the Spanish navy; fellows of the Royal Society of London; members of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c. &c. Translated from the original Spanish.
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]