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ACUÑA, CHRISTOVAL DE. Voyages and Discoveries in South-America... Done into English from the Originals. London: Printed for S. Buckley 1698. 3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco label, sprinkled edges, covers detached, title-page and some leaves a bit browned, last leaf chipped at a corner with loss of a word, half morocco slipcase, FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, 2 engraved folding maps (slightly browned) of the Amazon region and Paraguay, etc.
Part I of this collected work is Voyages and Discoveries...up the River of Amazon to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil by Acuña; Part II is An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and thence over Land to Peru by Acarete du Biscay; Part III is A Journal of the Travels of John Grillet and Francis Bechamel into Guiana, in the Year 1674. Parts II and III have separate title-pages. "The work of Acuña, bishop of Caracas, tells of the Spanish expedition under Pedro Teixeira which left Quito in 1639 and descended the whole course of the Amazon to Pará...This work gave for the first time scientific observations on the upper Amazon and descriptions of its Indian inhabitants. The map by Sanson d'Abbeville is from the French edition" -- Hill, pp. 311-312; Wing V 746; Sabin 152; Palau 2487; Borba de Moraes (1983), p. 12 ("It is a rare book").
Part I of this collected work is Voyages and Discoveries...up the River of Amazon to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil by Acuña; Part II is An Account of a Voyage up the River de la Plata, and thence over Land to Peru by Acarete du Biscay; Part III is A Journal of the Travels of John Grillet and Francis Bechamel into Guiana, in the Year 1674. Parts II and III have separate title-pages. "The work of Acuña, bishop of Caracas, tells of the Spanish expedition under Pedro Teixeira which left Quito in 1639 and descended the whole course of the Amazon to Pará...This work gave for the first time scientific observations on the upper Amazon and descriptions of its Indian inhabitants. The map by Sanson d'Abbeville is from the French edition" -- Hill, pp. 311-312; Wing V 746; Sabin 152; Palau 2487; Borba de Moraes (1983), p. 12 ("It is a rare book").