AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT COUNTRY & RIVER OF THE AMAZONES IN AMERICA. DRAWN OUT OF DIVERS AUTHORS, AND REDUCED INTO A BETTER FORME; WITH A MAPP OF THE RIVER, AND OF ITS PROVINCES, BEING THAT PLACE WHICH SR. WALTER RAWLEIGH IN
Pagan, Count Blaise François de: Hamilton, William, trans:

London: John Starkey, 1661. [xxx],153,[1],[6]pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Attractive unrestored contemporary mottled calf. Slightly worn at extremities. Very good. First English edition. In the dedication of the original French edition Pagan calls on Cardinal Mazarin to "take possession of the Amazon and establish several colonies. He proves that it would not be a difficult enterprise and large armies and many pieces of artillery would not be necessary. The map drawn by Pagan is of great importance as a proof of the French ambitions in the Amazon regions..." (Borba de Moraes). However, in the English edition here, translator William Hamilton urges the King of England to take the same action in his "Epistle Dedicatory." It is accompanied by the same map as found in the first edition. "This translation is rare..." - Borba de Moraes. BORBA DE MORAES, p.646.

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