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448 - South America.- Gumilla (José) El Orinoco Ilustrado, y Defendido, Historia Natural, Civil, y Geographica de este Gran Rio, 2 vol., second edition, 1 engraved folding map, 2 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, upper hinges starting, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spines, remains of ties, [Sabin 29275], 4to, Madrid, Manuel Fernandez, 1745.
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South America.- Gumilla (José) El Orinoco Ilustrado, y Defendido, Historia Natural, Civil, y Geographica de este Gran Rio, 2 vol., second edition, 1 engraved folding map, 2 engraved plates, occasional light foxing, upper hinges starting, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spines, remains of ties, [Sabin 29275], 4to, Madrid, Manuel Fernandez, 1745. *** José Gumilla stayed for 30 years at the Orinoco missions and was the first to publish a comprehensive account on the Orinoco river, its people, tribe, and natural history. "He travelled widely on the Middle Orinoco and had ascended to Apure Arauca and Meta rivers... and in 1741 published what was the first descriptive account of the Orinoco and its tributaries... In his book Gumilla spoke bitterly of the slave traders who invaded his country." (Howgego p.464).
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