Collection of Peruvian manuscripts,1790-1800, 1820.

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Collection of Peruvian manuscripts,1790-1800, 1820.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540832

This collection includes nineteen documents relating principally to the revolt of Tupac Amaru II, the last claimant to the throne of the Incas (1780-1783), and to medicine, manners, learned societies, and the law of Spanish America.

1 v. (ca. 200 p.) : copies.

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American Philosophical Society Library

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Tupac Amaru, Mariano, 1762-1784

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. From the description of Letters, 1837-1839. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522812 U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institu...