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Historia natural, civil y geografica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del Rio Orinoco Nueva impresion: Mucho mas correcta que las anteriores, y adornada con ocho laminas finas, que manifiestan las costumbres y ritos de aquellos Americanos. Corregido por el P. Ignacio Obregón, de los Clérigos Menores.
GUMILLA, Joseph (S. J.). Description of Amazonas flora & fauna with four additional plates
Published by Barcelona, Carlos Gibert y Tutó 1791
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2 volumes in 8vo. xvi + 360 p; [2]f + 352p. With engraved author's portrait, 6 plates, 1 folding engraved map, and 2 engraved allegorical vignettes. Contemporary mottled sheep; morocco title-label on spines; backstrips and corners worn; rubbed. An early account of the geography, natura…l history, and ethnography of the Orinoco region in the province of Amazonas, Venezuela. Gumilla (1686-1750) came to South America in 1714 as a missionary and spent much time of his life evangelizing the Indian tribes living along the shores of the Orinoco River, where be became Superior of the Jesuit missions. In 1738, on his appointment as synodal examiner at Cartagena, he temporarily returned to Spain, and there compiled this book based on personal knowledge of the region and on historical material found in manuscripts left by Fathers Mercado and Ribera. Excellent redaction with corrections by the Jesuits Ignacio Obregón and Antonio Juglá y Font, augmented with an engraved portrait of the author, and 4 charming plates engraved by Mateo González & Capilla illustrating the customs of the Orinoco Indians: a dance of the Mapuyes, funeral rites of the Salivas, 2 doctors known as 'Piaches' blowing smoke on a female patient in a hammock, Indians grinding maize and making maize bread. With old collector's stamp in blank tailend margins of both titles. De Backer-Sommervogel III, 1949; Leclerc 1472; Medina, Biblioteca Hispano-Americana, 5460; Palau 111193; Sabin 29276 (in error calls for 7 plates).
