English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 1550-1646.

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London: The Hakluyt Society 1989. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Dustjacket. (xxvi 500pp.). With numerous footnotes and outline & contemporary maps. Fine. NOTE: During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantations on the River Amazon. It became the focus of fierce colonial rivalry. (Hakluyt Soc. Second Series Vol. 171.).