Historica relacion del reyno de Chile
Subtitle: y de las missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesus. A Nuestro Señor Iesu Christo, Dios hombre y a la Santissima Virgen, y Madre Maria, señora del cielo, y de la tierra, y a los Santos Ioseph, Ioachin, Ana, sus padres, y aguelos
By: Alonso de Ovalle de la Compañia de Iesus natural de Santiago de Chile, y su procurador à Roma
Contributors: Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630; Huth, Henry, 1815-1878; British Library
Publisher: Por Francisco Cauallo.
Published: 1646
Place of publication: En Roma
Language: spa
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Missions; Description and travel; History; Jesuits
Other titles: Historica relacion del reino de Chile.; Half-title: Varias, y curiosas noticias del reino de Chile ..
Notes: An Italian translation was printed by Francesco Cavalli in Rome in the same year (European Americana, 646/113)

A folded map entitled "Tablua geographica regni Chile" is bound with this work. See Lawrence Wroth's article "Alonso de Ovalle's large map of Chile, 1646" describing in detail the two states of this map in Imago Mundi XIV (1959): p. 90-95.

There are 36 leaves of plates bound throughout the text including illustrations of the governors of Chile and 11 portraits of the governors of Chile bound between p. 322 and 323; following p. 455 are 6 leaves of illustrations of buildings and maps numbered 1-12, and 3 leaves of plans of ports and islands numbered 1-6. According to Medina, the nine portraits which represent the governors of Chile were engraved by A. Tempesta; some copies have plates in variant states.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) [sec.]⁴ A-3L⁴

Errors in paging: p. 51 misnumbered 31.

Errata: p. 455.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Includes index.

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; initials.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, II:1752.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, VI: col. 40, no. 3.

Medina, J.T. Biblioteca hispano-chilena (1523-1817), 118.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 207397.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: p. 345.

European Americana, 646/112.

Purchase; 1846; 0875.

Purchase; 1917; 11250.

Text primarily in Spanish with some passages in Latin.