Historia natural civil y geografica de las naciones situadas en las riveras del rio Orinoco.
Su autor el padre Joseph Gumilla.

Description

Main Author

Gumilla, Joseph, -1750.

Related Names

Juglá y Font, Antonio, ed.
Obregon, Ignacio de, ed.

Language(s)

Spanish

Published

Barcelona, Impr. de C. Gibert y Tutó, 1791.

Edition

Nueva impresion;

Subjects

Jesuits > Jesuits / Venezuela > Jesuits / Venezuela / Early works to 1800.
Ethnology > Ethnology / Venezuela > Ethnology / Venezuela / Early works to 1800.
Indians of South America > Indians of South America / Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) > Indians of South America / Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) / Early works to 1800.
Venezuela > Venezuela / Description and travel > Venezuela / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) > Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) / Description and travel > Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.

Summary

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.

Note

First ed., Madrid, 1741, published under title: El Orinoco ilustrado ...
Vol. 1: Corregido por el p. Ignacio Obregón; v. 2: Corregido por ... Antonio Juglá y Font.

Physical Description

2 v. plates, port., fold. map. 21cm.

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