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The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili. / With notes from the Spanish and french version, and an appendix containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the original Italian by an American gentleman [R.Alsop]
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection F3058 .M76 1808 2v. (v.1-2)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Molina, Giovanni Ignazio, 1740-1829
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Chile.
- Natural history.
- Chile.
- Mapuche Indians.
- Mapuche language.
- Chile--History--To 1810.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : foldedmap ; 21cm
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Printed for I.Riley, 1808.
- Contents:
- v. 1. The natural history of Chili.
- v. 2. The civil history of Chili.
- Notes:
- "Printed by Richard Alsop."
- Originally published as two separate works, viz: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili, Bologna, 1782, and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili, Bologna, 1787.
- The appendix has special t.p. with imprint: New York, Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, 1808.
- "An essay on the Chilian language": v.2, p.[285]-305.
- Originally published as two separate works: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili (Bologna, 1782) and, Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili (Bologna, 1787)
- Appendix has special t.p.: An appendix to the civil and political history of Chili, consisting of a sketch of the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla, with copious translations from that poem, by William Hayley ... and ... H. Boyd (New York: Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, 1808)
- Translated by R. Alsop.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 15628.
- Sabin 9893.
- Sabin 49893
- Shaw/Shoemaker 15628
- OCLC:
- 3398026
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