The author actually urged Cardinal Mazarin to seize the region and set up colonies there - and a copy seen in a Lawrences of Crewkerne sale of July 6, in rebacked and repaired contemporary sheep and bearing the bookplate of Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, was sold for £1400.
Amazonian ambitions
RIGHT: translated by William Hamilton, the 1661 first English edition of Blaise François de Pagan, the Comte de Merveilles’ Historical & Geographical Description of the Great Country and River of the Amazones in America..., contains this important folding engraved map showing French ambitions in the area.