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Historia natural civil y geografica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del rio Orinoco.
Orinoco ilustrado ...
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The interactions of the Jesuits with the Native Americans along the Orinoco River are here described by Gumilla, a Jesuit missionary who traveled through the region and who was interested in the et...
The interactions of the Jesuits with the Native Americans along the Orinoco River are here described by Gumilla, a Jesuit missionary who traveled through the region and who was interested in the ethnology and the natural history of the areas he was evangelizing.
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- Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla ..
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- Spanish
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- Nueva impresion: mucho mas correcta que las anteriores, y adornada con ocho láminas finas, que manifestan las costumbres y ritos de aquellos americanos
- Barcelona : En la imprenta de Carlos Gibert y Tutó, Año MDCCLXXXXI. [1791]
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- 2 volumes : illustrations (plates), folded map, portrait ; 21 cm (4to)
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- ocm01886641
- Vol. 1: Corregido por el p. Ignacio Obregón; v. 2: Corregido por ... Antonio Juglá y Font.
- First ed., Madrid, 1741, published under title: El Orinoco ilustrado ...
- Errata, v. 1, p. xiii ; v. 2, prelim. p. [4].
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
- Venezuela -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
- Indians of South America -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Early works to 1800.
- Ethnology -- Venezuela -- Early works to 1800.
- Jesuits -- Venezuela -- Early works to 1800.
- Indians, South American
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- Ethnology
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