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Author/Creator:

Molina, Giovanni Ignazio, 1740-1829

Contributors:

Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815

Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de, 1533-1594

Hayley, William, 1745-1820

Boyd, Henry, -1832

Languages:

English
Spanish
French
Italian

Language Notes:

Item content: English, Spanish, French
Translated from (original): Italian

Main Work:

Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili [by Molina, G.I.] (English)

Included Works:

The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili [by Molina, G.I.]

Tr. from the original Italian by an American gentleman [R. Alsop] [by Molina, G.I.]

Subjects:

Natural history — Chile

Mapuche Indians

Mapuche language

Chile — History — To 1810

To 1810

Natural history

Chile

Genres:

Printed books — United States — Connecticut — Middletown — 19th century

History

General Notes:

Originally published as two separate works, viz.: 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, esq. and the Rev. H. Boyd. New York: Published by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop, City-hotel, Broadway, 1808.
"An essay on the Chilian language": v. 2, p. [285]-305.
v.1: Later library binding in black buckram with gilt spine titles.
v.2: Later library binding in brown buckram with gilt spine titles.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : folded map ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

983 M733

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

03002763

OCLC Numbers:

3398026