South America - Description and travel - Early works to 1800

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A relation of Mr. R.M's voyage to Buenos-Ayres and from thence by land to Potosi. Dedicated to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the South-Sea Company.
R. M., Mr.Date: M.DCC.XVI. [1716]
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A Visible display of divine providence or, the journal of a captured missionary, designated to the southern Pacific Ocean, in the second voyage of the ship Duff, commanded by Captain Thomas Robson, captured by Le Grand Buonaparte, off cape frio; including every remarkable occurrence which took place on board the Ships Duff, Le Grand Buonaparte, De Pacquatio, Postillibio, De Amerique, Amazona, and Meduza, and in the Province of Paraguay, Spanish South America; and at Portugal, on the return home, in the years 1798 and 1799. By William Gregory, one of the missionaries. With extracts compiled from the journals of Messrs. Rev. Peter Levesque, Rev. John Hill, James Jones, John Levesque, and other missionaries captured in the Duff.
Gregory, William, fl. 1800.Date: [1800]
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A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru , in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing The Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: Their Customs and Manners; their Natural History, Mines, Commodities, Traffick with Europe, &c. By Monsieur Frezier, Engineer in Ordinary to the French King. Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the Coasts, Harbours, Cities, Plants, and other Curiosities: printed from the author's original plates inserted in the Paris edition. With a postscript by Dr. Edmun Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. And an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay.
Amédée-François FrézierDate: MDCCXVII. [1717]
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A voyage to South America . Describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive Continent. Undertaken by command of the King of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, Both Captains of the Spanish Navy; Fellows of the Royal Society of London; Members of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c. &c. Translated from the original Spanish.
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]