The geographical, natural, and civil history of Chili.
By: Tr. 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.
Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Published: 1809
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng; ita
Subjects: Natural history -- Chile; Mapuche Indians; Mapuche language; Indians of South America -- Chile; Indians of South America -- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile); Chile -- History -- To 1810; Chiloe (Chile : Province)
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."--Sabin.
Originally published in Italian as two separate works, viz.: Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili, Bologna, 1782, and Saggio sulla storia civile del Chili, Bologna, 1787.