Monstruo prodigioso que appareceo no reino de Chile..
Publisher: Na Officina de Miguel Manescal da Costa, impressor do santo Officiò.
Published: 1751
Place of publication: Lisboa
Language: por
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Monsters; Mythical Animals
Other titles: Relaçao de hum monstruo prodigioso, que appreceo no reino de Chile entro os montes, que dividem este reino das dilitadas provincias de Tucman, e Paraguai, ou do Rio da Prata, que são confinantes com o Brazil
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Caption title on page 2 reads: Relaçao de hum monstruo prodigioso, que appreceo no reino de Chile entro os montes, que dividem este reino das dilitadas provincias de Tucman, e Paraguai, ou do Rio da Prata, que são confinantes com o Brazil.

Anonymous account with a monster on the western frontier of Brazil, in the Andes mountains of Chile, near the borders of Peru, Paraguay, and Tucumán, which was encountered by a party of Spanish merchants in their travels from Peru to Chile. The chimera took the form of a lion, serpent, eagle and unicorn with a marsupial's pouch and had a red gemstone set in its foreheard. It killed 27 men before it was cpatured in a pit when others of its species arrived to save their companion.

Signatures: A⁴ (+B4).

Large woodcut vignette of the monster on title page.

Purchase; 2019; 20-027.