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JOSé GUMILLA (circa 1690-circa 1758)
El Orinoco ilustrado, historia natural, civil, y geographica de este gran rio. Madrid: Manuel Fernandez, 1741. 4° (204 x 145mm). Folding engraved map. two plates. (Aaa2-3 supplied in manuscript facsimile, small tears to map, a few leaves with marginal repairs, several reapaired). Contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, ties defective, front inner hinge split). Provenance: Roulin (inscription, dated 1826).
FIRST EDITION of "one of the most curious and interesting [books] hitherto published upon the country of the Orinoco" (Sabin). Gumilla, a Spanish Jesuit, spent 30 years amongst the Orinoco missions, working with the indigenous tribes and recording the geography, natural history, and ethnography of the region. In addition to his own observations, he also drew on the manuscript accounts of Fathers Mercado and Ribera. The map, drawn by Gumilla, includes locations of tribes, missions, garrisons, towns and where missionaries had died. Palau 111191; Sabin 29274.
El Orinoco ilustrado, historia natural, civil, y geographica de este gran rio. Madrid: Manuel Fernandez, 1741. 4° (204 x 145mm). Folding engraved map. two plates. (Aaa2-3 supplied in manuscript facsimile, small tears to map, a few leaves with marginal repairs, several reapaired). Contemporary limp vellum (lightly soiled, ties defective, front inner hinge split). Provenance: Roulin (inscription, dated 1826).
FIRST EDITION of "one of the most curious and interesting [books] hitherto published upon the country of the Orinoco" (Sabin). Gumilla, a Spanish Jesuit, spent 30 years amongst the Orinoco missions, working with the indigenous tribes and recording the geography, natural history, and ethnography of the region. In addition to his own observations, he also drew on the manuscript accounts of Fathers Mercado and Ribera. The map, drawn by Gumilla, includes locations of tribes, missions, garrisons, towns and where missionaries had died. Palau 111191; Sabin 29274.