Rare original, antique illustrations of the people of South America, their habits, customs and fashions. South America, the planet's fourth largest continent, includes 12 independent countries and three major territories - the Falkland Islands, Galapagos Islands and French Guiana. The countries are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. South America was like a magnet for explorers and world powers in the olden days, attracted by legends of the huge wealth of Eldorado, incredible plants and animals such as the giant Anaconda snake and multitude of useful plants and trees such as the cocao tree and coffee bush.
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24.5 x 15.5 cm (9.5 x 6.3 inches)La Chocolate. Danse Indigine a LimaPeruThis finely detailed original hand coloured engraving was made in Paris in 1843 for a work by Captain Gabriel-Pierre Lafond and illustrates people from remote and exotic lands in an era of travel and exploration.It is a genuine ..
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24.5 x 15.5 cm (9.5 x 6.3 inches)Perou. Danse d'Indiens AymarasPeruThis finely detailed original hand coloured engraving was made in Paris in 1843 for a work by Captain Gabriel-Pierre Lafond and illustrates people from remote and exotic lands in an era of travel and exploration.It is a genuine antiq..
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26 x 21 cm (10.25 x 8.25 inches).Mark in corner well away from imagePatagonia,Chile,Argentina,South AmericaThis original antique engraving is from a work by George Alexander Cooke, Universal Geography, which described voyages, travels and discoveries of great explorers of the era such as Captain Jam..
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23.0 x 15.0 cm (9.2 x 4.8 inches).Piantatori di SurinamSurinamThis exquisitely detailed hand finished engraving is from a set titled il Costume Antico e Moderno by Dr Giulo Ferrario (1767-1847)and was made in the 1820s. Ferrario's work documented and compared clothes and costumes from around the wor..
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