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BRITISH GUIANA PAPERS: a collection of transcripts of official and other documents relating to the Portuguese occupation of the Maranhão, Grão Parà. and the adjoining parts of Brazil ; 1624-1822. Nearly all in Portuguese. Three volumes. Folio. The originals are for the most part preserved in the Portuguese archives, and the transcripts were made for the British Government to be used in the Arbitration with Brazil as to the boundaries of British Guiana. Many of the documents are translated in...
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Portugal: British Guiana papers relating to the American possessions of: 1624-1822. Rio Negro, Brazil: Documents relating to: 1650-1822.: Portug.and Span.: Copies. Guiana, South America: Papers bearing on the frontier dispute with Brazil: 1624-1822.: Portug. and Span. England General Chronicl...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1624-1822
Extent:
3 items

2. Add MS 37044

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BRITISH GUIANA PAPERS. Vol. III. (ff. 404). 1773-1822. 1. (a) Instructions and licence by Vicente Diez de La Fuente to Ysidoro Rondon, commander of the expedition to Lake Parime and El Dorado; River Parava [Paragua], Pueblo de S. Jozef, 30 Aug. 1773. Span. ff. 1, 5 b;-(b) Instructions by the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1773-1822
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 37043

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BRITISH GUIANA PAPERS. Vol. 11. (ff. 319). 1730- circ. 1768. 1. Report by Dr. Fr. Jozeph Per[eir]a de Sta. Anna on a proposal apparently affecting the powers of the Bishop of ]Pará over the missions in the interior of the diocese; Carmelite College of Coimbra, 18 Jan. 1730. With a note in agre...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1730-c 1768
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 37042

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BRITISH GUIANA PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 468). 1624-1729. 1. Extract from the Relacão sumaria das cousas do Maranham of Capt. Simão Estaco de Oliveira, printed at Lisbon, 1614 (sc. 1624), describing a journey of certain Indians to El Dorado and up the Amazon to Quito. f. 2. The printed book is in A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1624-1729
Extent:
1 item