Lorimer, Joyce [Editor]

ENGLISH AND IRISH SETTLEMENT ON THE RIVER AMAZON, 1550-1646.

Pp. xxvi+500(last blank), text maps (some double page), references, index; light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; demy 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, the back panel faintly soiled; The Hakluyt Society, London, 1989. Second series, Volume 171. *During the first half of the 17th century, English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantations along the Amazon. From at least 1612 to 1632, they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. Item #076131

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