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Canary Islands

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  • Canary Islanders circling a fountain tree (Spathodea campanulata) and filling their urns with the water it secretes. Wood-engraving, ca. 1748.
  • An old dragon tree (Dracaena draco) with a gash in its stem releasing its "dragon's blood" resin and a door in its trunk. Aquatint with etching by R. G. Reeve after J. J. Williams, c.1819.
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    Americae pars VIII. Continens primo, descriptionem trivm itinervm Francisci Draken, qui circumnauigato vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea copiis nauticis, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panamam, in Indiam nauigauit. Secvndo, iter ... Thomae Candisch ... Tertio, duo itinera ... Gvaltheri Ralech quibus describitur ... regnum Gviana ... cuius ... tabula geographica in fronte operis occurrit / Primo Anglicana lingva sparsim consignata: iam vero in vnum corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa; figurisq; illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & sumptibus I. T. de Bry haeredum.

    | Date: 1625
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    Cancer en Tenerife : (symposium) / Fernando Barajas Prat [and others].

    | Date: 1960
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    Madeira and the Canary Islands : a practical and complete guide for the use of invalids and tourists / A. Samler Brown.

    Brown, A. Samler. | Date: 1894
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    Remedios y enfermedades : la sanidad en Canarias (siglos XVI-XIX) / [coordinación de la publicación, Leocadia M. Pérez González].

    | Date: 2009
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    El viaje del astrónomo y naturalista Louis Feuillée a las Islas Canarias (1724) : seguido de la transcripción y traducción del manuscrito "Historia antigua y moderna de las Islas Canarias", redactado por Louis Feuillée / Miguel Angel Puig-Samper, Francisco Pelayo ; prólogo: Arnoldo Santos Guerra.

    Puig-Samper, Miguel Ángel. | Date: 1997
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