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"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae."
"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae."
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"Veram et historicam descriptionem auriferi regni Guineae."
- Indiae Orientalis part 6
-Johann Theodor de Bry; Johann Israel de Bry;
Pieter de Marees
-Published by in Frankfurt by WolfgangRichteri
-1604
-Quarto, 29 x 20 cm
-Complete: TP, [8], 1-127, TP to plates. 26 half-page engraved illustrations (Complete)
First edition of part 6 of de Bry's Petits Voyages in Latin. This volume covers Pieter de Marees's Dutch expedition to Guinea, 1600-01. one of the earliest detailed European descriptions of West African society and an essential reference for the precolonial period.