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Compendio de la historia geografica, natural y civil del reyno de Chile...
Madrid: Don Antonio de Sancha, 1788
Physical Description: xx, 418, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates: map; 22 cm. (4to)
Call number: H788/ M722c
Accession number: 07353
Notes: Includes: "Catalogo II. De algunos vocabulos chileños perteneciente á la historia natural" (p. 407-418, listing over 300 terms in Spanish with equivalents in Araucanian [Mapuche], relating to the natural environment as well as kinship and human body parts.
Translation by Domingo José de Arquellada Mendoza, of: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Bologna, 1782. Original work in Italian is an extended version of the natural history section of the author's : Compendio della storia geografica, naturale e civile del regno del Chile. Bologna, 1776.
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Languages: Mapuche
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
