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    [Aviendo entendido la materia que se controvierte sobre si se deben fortificar la boca del Rio de la ensenada del Dariel, y el desembarcadero del Playon en el parage de los Cayos ...
    Binder's title: Forma de assegurar los puertos y poblaciones de todas las costas de las Indias | Text of second gathering begins: Aviendo prevenido en el papel antecedente la mejor forma de assegurar los puertos y poblaciones de todas las costas de las Indias | Facturias que dichas naciones tienen en las islas de Barlobento son como se sigue | A viendo entendido la materia que se controvierte | Habiendo entendido la materia que controvierte sobre si se deben fortificar la boca del río de la ensenada del Darién, y el desembarcadero del playón en el paraje de los cayos de las Cabezas, para estorbar a los piratas el poder pasar a las costas del Perú     In the second half of the 17th century, rampant piracy threatened the economic and commercial interests of Spain in the West Indies. Piracy also introduced a complicating factor in the ongoing struggle among Spain, France, and England for preeminence in the Caribbean. This book, published around 1694, offers recommendations, apparently addressed by Governor Sebastien de Roteta of Trinidad to King Charles II, on fortifying...
    • Date: 1694

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    Malpelo, Cocos, and Easter Islands. Separate title-pages and "Contents" for text on each island. "Authorities": p. 5, 29-30, 60-62.
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
    • Date: 1920-01-01
    • Resource: - 78 pages

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    [Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6]. The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the cities of Santiago, Santo Domingo, Cartagena, and St. Augustine, Florida. 4 bird's-eye views and 1 map. Relief shown pictorially on bird's-eye views. Voyage map in English; city maps in Latin. Title supplied...
    • Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Boazio, Baptista - Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1589

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    Orinoco, nuebamente obserbado en bajante, afin de espresar sus raudales, yslas y bajos, rios y caños que vezibe : año 1732. Also shows locations of Indian tribes and missions. Oriented with north to the bottom. Watermark: J. Whatman. Pen-and-ink. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 990 Mounted on cloth backing. Includes notes and index to islands and tributaries at the delta of the river. Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right margin: No. 1. Annotated in brown ink in lower left corner: 17. Available also through the...
    • Date: 1732-01-01
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    Colombia and Venezuela. Relief shown by hachures. Inset maps: Isthmus of Panama showing location of railroad and canal -- Map showing railroad between Caracas and La Guayra. Indexes on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Rand McNally and Company
    • Date: 1898-01-01
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    [Manuscript map of Dagua River region, Colombia]. "... diziembre 19 de 1764." Shows the vicinity of the present-day city of Buenaventura, Colombia when it was known as the estuary of the Rio Dagua where the town of Sombrerillo occupied this part of the Viceroyalty of New Grenada. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Has watermarks. Includes index and note. Available also through the Library of...
    • Date: 1764-01-01
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    Tratado entre la República de Colombia y los Estados Unidos de América para el arreglo de sus diferencias provenientes de los acontecimientos realizados en el Istmo de Panamá en noviembre de 1903, Bound with: Tratados, convenciones y acuerdos aprobados por el Congreso nacional de 1913. Bogota, Imprenta Nacional, 1914.
    • Contributor: United States - Colombia (Republic of Colombia, )
    • Date: 1914-01-01
    • Resource: - 168 pages

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    Constitución de la República de Colombia. This volume, most likely published in Bogota in November 1821, contains the text of the constitution of the first Republic of Colombia, proclaimed by President Simón Bolívar in October of the same year. In 1717-23, the Spanish imperial authorities combined territories comprising all or parts of present-day Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador into the Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada; Panama was added in...
    • Contributor: Colombia
    • Date: 1821-01-01
    • Resource: - 88 pages

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    Tratados, convenciones y acuerdos aprobados por el Congreso nacional de 1913. Tratados, convenciones y acuerdos aprobados por el Congreso nacional de 1913 (Treaties, conventions and agreements approved by the National Congress of 1913) is a compilation of documents published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Colombia. The book is the second annex to a ministry publication on Colombia's international relations in 1913; the first annex contains the text of a treaty...
    • Contributor: Colombia (Republic of Colombia, ) - Colombia (Republic of Colombia, ) Ministerio De Relaciones Exteriores
    • Date: 1914-01-01
    • Resource: - 351 pages

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    Canal de Panamá : documentos relacionados con este asunto, que se publican por orden del Senado de la república At head of title: República de Colombia.
    • Contributor: Colombia. Congreso. Senado
    • Date: 1903-01-01
    • Resource: - 130 pages

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    A Syrian Voyage in Central and South America. Father Henri Lammens was born into a Catholic family in Ghent, Belgium, in 1862. At the age of 15 he joined the Jesuits and later settled permanently in Lebanon. He mastered Latin and Greek and taught Arabic in Beirut. His first work was an Arabic dictionary, Farā'id al-lugha (The pearls of language), dating from 1889. He also served as editor for the Jesuit newspaper...
    • Contributor: Lammens, Henri - Shartouni, Rashid
    • Date: 1894-01-01
    • Resource: - 133 pages

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    An Account of a Selection of Plants of America.
    Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia     The first world-renowned natural scientist to set foot on Colombian soil was the Dutch physician and botanist Baron Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin (1727--1817). As a young man he showed such ability in his studies in Vienna that he attracted royal patronage. Emperor Francis I commissioned him to travel to the Americas for the purpose of collecting rare and exotic plants for the imperial parks of...
    • Contributor: Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr Von
    • Date: 1763-01-01
    • Resource: - 503 pages

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    An Account of a Selection of Plants of America.
    Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia     The first world-renowned natural scientist to set foot on Colombian soil was the Dutch physician and botanist Baron Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin (1727--1817). As a young man he showed such ability in his studies in Vienna that he attracted royal patronage. Emperor Francis I commissioned him to travel to the Americas for the purpose of collecting rare and exotic plants for the imperial parks of...
    • Contributor: Bauer, Ferdinand - Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph, Freiherr Von
    • Date: 1780-01-01
    • Resource: - 300 pages

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    The Pilgrimage of Alpha (Manuel Ancízar) in the Northern Provinces of New Granada, 1850--51.
    Peregrinación de Alpha (Manuel Ancízar) por las provincias del norte de la Nueva Granada, en 1850 i 51     Peregrinación de Alpha (Manuel Ancízar) por las provincias del norte de la Nueva Granada, en 1850 i 51 (The pilgrimage of Alpha (Manuel Ancízar) in the northern provinces of New Granada, 1850--51) consists of articles written by Manuel Ancízar (1812--82), published in book form in 1853. Ancízar, who wrote under the pseudonym Alpha, was secretary of the Comisión Corográfica (Chorographic Commission) of New Granada...
    • Contributor: Ancízar, Manuel
    • Date: 1853-01-01
    • Resource: - 524 pages

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    Rewards for Obedience, Punishment for Disobedience.
    Premios de la obediencia, castigos de la inobediencia     Premios de la obediencia, castigos de la inobediencia (Rewards for obedience, punishment for disobedience) by Raymundo Azero (1739--94) is one of the first books printed in New Granada (the Spanish viceroyalty that comprised all or parts of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela). Azero studied at the College of San Buenaventura in Santa Fe de Bogotá and was ordained a Franciscan priest. He later...
    • Contributor: Azero, Raymundo
    • Date: 1782-01-01
    • Resource: - 54 pages

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    Report on the Different Masses of Iron, Found in the Eastern Cordillera of the Andes.
    Memoria sobre diferentes masas de hierro, encontradas en la cordillera oriental de los Andes     Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz (1798--1857) was a Peruvian scientist, geologist, mineralogist, chemist, archaeologist, politician, and diplomat. After schooling in Arequipa, he was sent in 1810 at age 12 to London to study mathematics, physics, and languages. In 1817 he traveled to France to the École royale des mines de Paris to study mineralogy and chemistry. In France he met Joseph Louis Proust,...
    • Contributor: Boussingault, J. B. (Jean Baptiste) - Rivero Y Ustáriz, Mariano Eduardo De
    • Date: 1823-01-01
    • Resource: - 7 pages

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    Biography of the Illustrious Doctor José de Cuero y Caicedo, Native of Cali, Bishop of Cuenca and Quito.
    Noticia biográfica del ilustrísimo señor doctor José de Cuero i Caicedo natural de Cali, i obispo de Cuenca i Quito     José Cuero y Caicedo (1735-1815), the subject of the brief biography presented here, was born in Cali, in present-day Colombia. He was the bishop of two cities in present-day Ecuador, Cuenca in 1798-1801 and Quito from 1801 until the year of his death. He was involved in the early part of the struggle for Ecuadoran independence. In 1809-12, in Quito, Santa Fe, and other...

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    The Protestant Farce and Martin Luther.
    La farsa protestante y Martín Lutero     La farsa protestante y Martín Lutero (The Protestant farce and Martin Luther) is a short work by an unknown author that reveals its strong anti-Protestant bias from the title onward. The book was published in 1897 by the Salesian Press in Colombia. The first half of the text is a polemic against the ideas of the Reformation as expounded by Martin Luther (1483-1546), the...

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    Raimundo Santamaría. The booklet presented here is a posthumous tribute to Raimundo Santamaría (1795-1869), published in the year of his death. Santamaría was born in Medellín, Colombia, and became an important figure in the region of Antioquia. He participated in the Colombian wars of independence in the early 19th century. He later married and became an adviser to the government, but he mainly concentrated his energies...

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    Address by the Honorable Representative Dr. Manuel Dávila Flórez Regarding the Draft Press Law.
    Discurso del honorable Representante doctor Manuel Dávila Flórez en la discusión del proyecto de la ley de prensa     Manuel Dávila Flórez (1853-1924) was a Conservative representative in the Colombian National Assembly in the early 20th century. This was a volatile time in Colombia, following the War of the Thousand Days in 1899-1902, a Conservative coup in 1900, and the secession of Panama in 1903. Carlos Eugenio Restrepo was elected president of Colombia in 1910. As a writer and journalist, the new president...
    • Contributor: Colombia. Congress. House of Representatives - Dávila Flórez, Manuel
    • Date: 1912-01-01
    • Resource: - 26 pages

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    Vocabulary of the Language Used by the Indians in These Missions.
    Vocabulario de la lengua que usan los indios de estas misiones     This manuscript, by an unknown author probably writing at one or several Catholic missions in the 18th century, was found at the College for the Propagation of the Faith in Popayán, New Granada (the Spanish viceroyalty that comprised all or parts of present-day Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela). It consists of 103 pages, most of which are taken up by a glossary of words...

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    Chibcha Dictionary and Grammar.
    Diccionario y gramática chibcha     This manuscript is a glossary with prayers, confessions, and sermons in the Chibcha language. It was compiled by an unknown hand, most likely in the mid-16th century (as suggested by the style of handwriting). The work was used by missionaries in the evangelization of the Muisca, the Chibcha-speaking people who lived in the central highlands of New Granada. The Spanish learned early in their...

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    Conquest and Discovery of the New Kingdom of Granada in the West Indies of the Ocean Sea and Foundation of the City of Santa Fe de Bogotá.
    Conquista i descubrimiento del Nuevo Reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del Mar Océano y fundación de la ciudad de Santa Fé de Bogotá     Little is known about Juan Rodríguez Freyle, the author of Conquista i descubrimiento del Nuevo Reino de Granada de las Indias Occidentales del Mar Océano y fundación de la ciudad de Santa Fé de Bogotá (Conquest and discovery of the New Kingdom of Granada in the West Indies of the Ocean Sea and foundation of the city of Santa Fe de Bogotá), a work...
    • Contributor: Rodríguez Freyle, Juan, 1566
    • Date: 1795-01-01
    • Resource: - 162 pages

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    The Educated Vassal in the State of the New Kingdom of Granada, and His Respective Duties.
    El vasallo instruido en el estado del Nuevo Reyno de Granada, y en sus respectivas obligaciones     El vasallo instruido (The educated vassal) was written in Cartagena by the Capuchin friar Joaquin de Finestrad. The manuscript, presented here, has two dates: 1783 on the front cover in pencil, and 1787 in the dedication to Viceroy Francisco Gil de Taboada y Lemos. The work consists of 12 unnumbered folios containing the dedication and preface, followed by the text of 505 pages originally...
    • Contributor: Finestrad, Joaquín De, Flourished
    • Date: 1789-01-01
    • Resource: - 511 pages

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    A Study of the Saliba Language.
    Arte de la lengua sáliba     This 1790 manuscript contains a grammar and partial glossary of the Saliba language, compiled by an unknown writer in San Miguel del Macuco (present-day Orocué, Colombia), and used by Jesuit missionaries. A note on the manuscript reads: "Under the Royal Order of our Catholic Monarch Charles IV, God preserve him, for demanding the greater learning and intelligence of the dictionary." The manuscript also includes...