The geographical, natural and civil history of Chili.
By: By Abbe Don J. Ignatius Molina ... With notes from the Spanish and French versions, and an appendix containing copious extracts from the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Tr. from the original Italian by an American gentleman [R. Alsop].
Contributors: Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815.; Ercilla y Zúñiga, Alonso de, 1533-1594.; Hayley, William, 1745-1820.; Boyd, Henry, d. 1832, tr.
Publisher: Printed for I. Riley
Published: 1808
Place of publication: Middletown (Conn.)
Language: eng; spa; fre
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Natural history -- Chile; Mapuche Indians; Mapuche language; Chile -- History -- To 1810
Notes: "An essay on the Chilian language": v. 2, p. [285]-305.
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.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The natural history of Chili.; title: v. 2. The civil history of Chili.