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The geographical, natural and civil history of Chile... With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix, containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla.
Middletown, Conn.: Printed for I. Riley by R. Alsop, 1808
Physical Description: 2 v. v.1: [8], xii, 271, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates; v.2: [4] , [iii]-viii, [2] , 305, [3], iv , [5]-68 p.) : map ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Call number: H808/ M722g
Accession number: 05701, 05701-A
Notes: Volume 2 includes "An essay on the Chilian language" (p. [285]-305), with remarks in English on phonetics and grammar, verb paradigms, a brief vocabulary listing 22 Araucanian [Mapuche] entries with English and Greek or Latin equivalents, numbers 1-2000 and terms related to number concepts.
Translation by Richard Alsop and, according to some sources, by William Shaler, of: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Bologna, 1782 (v. 1) and of: Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili. Bologna, 1787 (v. 2). The two original works in Italian, combined in the present edition in English, are extended versions of: Compendio della storia geografica, naturale e civile del regno del Chile. Bologna, 1776.
To access digital facsimile copy of volume 1 of copy 1 of this book, click here. To access volume 2 of copy 1 of this book, click here.
Languages: Mapuche
Genre: Grammar / Vocablary
Region: Spanish America
