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Essai sur l'histoire naturelle du Chili... traduit de l’Italien, & enrichi de notes.
Paris: Chez Neé de la Rochelle, 1789
Physical Description: xvi, 351, [1] p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Call number: H789/ M722e
Accession number: 07355, 10722
Notes: Includes: "Vocabulaire chilien, relativement à l'histoire naturelle" (p. 340-351), listing over 300 terms in French with equivalents in Araucanian [Mapuche], relating to the natural environment as well as kinship and human body parts.
Translation by Gruvel 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.
JCB has 2 copies. Copy 1 has many groups of leaves unopened.
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Languages: Mapuche
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
