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The geographical, natural, and civil history of Chili. Translated from the original Italian of the Abbe Don J. Ignatius Molina. To which are added, notes from the Spanish and French versions, and two appendixes, by the English editor; the first, an Account of the Archipelago of Chiloe, from the Descripcion historial of P.F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros; the second, an Account of the native tribes who inhabit the southern extremity of South America, extracted chiefly from Falkner's description of Patagonia
[London]: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1809
Physical Description: 2 v. : map ; 22 cm
Call number: H809 /M722g (2 copies)
Accession number: B07-57 / B07-155
Notes: Apparently a copy of the American edition of 1808, with a few alterations and some additions, but without any acknowledgment of the American original. Cf. Sabin.
Originally published in Italian as two separate works: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili, Bologna, 1782, and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili, Bologna, 1787.
Verso of title pages and colophons of v. 1 and 2 read: Printed by J.D. Dewick, 46, Barbican.
"An essay on the Chilian language", v. 2, p. [331]-366, includes vocabulary in Mapuche.
Pagination: v. 1: xx, 321, [3] p., [1] folded lead of plates; v. 2: xii, 385, [3] p.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]² b⁸ (b7 verso blank) B-X⁸ (T4 verso blank) Y²; v. 2: a⁶ (a4 verso blank) B-2B⁸ (O5, Y5 versos blank) 2C².
Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [1-3], 3rd count; v. 2, p. [1-3], 3rd count.
John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: copies 1 and 2, v. 1 and 2 wanting half title leaves.
John Carter Brown Library copies 1 and 2 quarter bound in contemporary morocco with marbled boards; all boards in copy 1 fully detached; front boards in copy 2 fully detached.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired from the estate of Maury A. Bromsen.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: Berkeley Divinity School 1854: book plate on front pastedowns.
John Carter Brown Library copy 2, v. 1 has additional 16 pages of bookseller's advertisements dated 1808, not counted in collation.
To access digital facsimile copy of volume 1 of this book, click here.
To access volume 2, copy of Molina's book, click here.
Languages: Mapuche
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Spanish America
