Historica relacion del reyno de Chile
Subtitle: y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesus ...
By: Alonso de Ovalle ...
Publisher: Por Francisco Cauallo
Published: 1646
Place of publication: En Roma
Language: spa
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Missions; History; Indians of South America; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Jesuits
Other titles: Histórica relación del reino de Chile; Varias y curiosas noticias del reino de Chile
Notes: Signatures: pi1 [sec.]⁴ A-3L⁴.

Error in paging: p. 51 misnumbered 31.

Page [1] (1st count) is a 29-line half-title and summary of contents beginning: Varias y curiosas noticias del reino de Chile ...

The [38] leaves of plates are engraved, and consist of a folded map of Chile, [14] leaves of ill., and [23] leaves of ports.

The [23] leaves of ports., intended to be bound in following p. 322, consist of a title leaf beginning: "Gvbernatores perillvstres..."; 9 equestrian ports. of Chilean governors (8 with 3 figures, 1 with one figure); a second title leaf beginning: "Invicti dvces ..."; and 12 half-length ports. of Spanish governors and captains. The 8 three-figure ports. are by Antonio Tempesta and come from an earlier suite of plates, here modified for use in this work. In some copies, the 2 title leaves are present in letterpress.

The folded engraved map of Chile is known in two versions. Most copies contain a map measuring 36 x 48 cm. One of the John Carter Brown Library copies has a more detailed version measuring 58 x 117 cm. Cf. Wroth.

The 12, 6 p. of plates at end consist of woodcut views of Jesuit buildings in Chile and plans of Chilean harbors and islands, with letterpress captions.

Some of the engraved plates are known in variant state.

Woodcut title-page vignette (Jesuit trigram device).

Text in double columns.

Errata: p. 455.

Includes index.

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 207397.

Toda y Güell, E. Bibliografia espanyola d'Italia, 3666.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 646/112.

Sabin 57972.

Wroth, L.C. Alonso de Ovalle's large map of Chile, 1646. (Imago mundi, 14 (1959): 90-95).