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Nuevo descubrimiento del gran río de las Amazonas
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- Creator
- por el Padre Chrstoval de Acuña, religioso de la Compañía de Iesus, y Calificador de la Suprema General Inquisición ; al qual fué, y se hizo por orden de Su Magestad, el año de 1639
- Format
- Books
- Language
- Spanish
- Publication
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- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1641]
- Madrid : En la Imprenta del Reyno, 1641
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged))
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn956407213
- An extremely scarce book, the first on the Amazon, by a Jesuit who accompanied the 1639 expedition of Pedro Teixeira, the first to reach Pará.
- Title page vignette (device of the Society of Jesus), head-pieces, catch words, large woodcut tail-piece on verso of last leaf.
- "Por la provincia de Quito en los reynos del Perú, al Excelentissimo Señor Conde Duque de Olivares."
- Reproduction of the original from Oliveira Lima Library, The Catholic University of America.