The Coast of Guyana From the Oroonoko to the River of Amazons and the Inland Parts as Far as Have Been Explored by the French & Dutch Engineers with the Islands of Barbadoes Tobago &ca from the Observ

£500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Detailed chart showing the coasts of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana, with four insets of river mouths; edited by by L. S. Delarochette for Faden. Even at this late date the interior has a reference to ‘the Golden Lake of Parima on the Banks of which the Discoverers of the 16th Century did place the Imaginary city of Manoa el Dorado’.

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