Nuevo descubrimiento del gran río de las Amazonas / 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:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597- author.

Series:

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs.

Brazilian and Portuguese history and culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America.

Amazon River--Early works to 1800.

Amazon River.

Brazil--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Brazil.

Indians of South America--Amazon River Valley--Early works to 1800.

Amazon River Valley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)).

Manufacture:

Madrid : En la Imprenta del Reyno, 1641.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1641]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

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.

Local Notes:

Scanned copy imperfect: some pages weak or faded print; some pages bleed-through of text.

OCLC:

956407213

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.