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Voyages dans l'Amérique Méridionale / par don Félix de Azara ... depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801 ; contenant la description géographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la rivière de la Plata ; l'histoire de la découverte et de la conquête de ces contrées ; des détails nombreux sur leur histoire naturelle, et sur les peuples sauvages qui les habitent ... Publiés d'après les manuscrits ...

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Author:
Azara, Félix de 1746-1821  Search this
Writer of supplementary textual content:
Walckenaer, C. A (Charles Athanase) 1771-1852  Search this
Cuvier, Georges baron 1769-1832  Search this
Sonnini, C. S (Charles Sigisbert) 1751-1812  Search this
Author:
Haenke, Tadeáš 1761-1817 Introduction a l'histoire naturelle de la province de Cochabamba  Search this
Publisher:
Dentu, J. G (Jean-Gabriel) 1770-1840  Search this
Former owner:
Hrdlička, Aleš 1869-1943 DSI  Search this
Physical description:
4 volumes ; 21 cm (8vo)
1 atlas ([4] pages, [28] leaves of plates (5 folded, 3 double)) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 35 cm (fol)
Type:
Electronic resources
Booksellers' advertisements
Place:
Paraguay
PARAGUAY
Date:
1809
Notes:
Volumes 3-4 are translated from the author's Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los pájaros del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata, Madrid, 1802-05. See volume 1, pages x, 384
"Introduction a l'histoire naturelle de la province de Cochabamba": dated and signed on page 541 "Cochabamba, 15 février 1799. Signé Tadeo Haenke.": volume 2, pages [389]-541
Atlas volume includes engraved portrait of the author, folded maps of South America including Paraguay and the province of Buenos Aires, Chaco, Chiquitos, Matagroso and Cuyaba, plans of the cities of Burnos Aires, Montevideo, Maldonado, Concepcion, and engraved figures of mammals and birds
Pagination: volume 1: lx, 389, [1] pages; volume 2: [4], 562 pages, [3] folded leaves; volume 3: [4], ii, 479, [1] pages; volume 4: [4], 380 pages
Signatures: volume 1: pi² *⁴ A-C⁸ 1-24⁸ 25² chi² ( -chi2) (chi1 verso blank); volume 2: pi² 1-35⁸ 36² ( -36₂); volume 3: pi² *² ( -*²) (30 verso blank); volume 4: pi² 1-23⁸ 24⁴ 25²
Bookseller's advertisements: volume 1, page [ii]
Errata: volume 2, page [2] (volumes 1-2); volume 3: page [2]; volume 4, page [2]
Includes indexes
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 2541
Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano, 20975
Also available online.
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SCNHRB has the text volumes 1-4 only (39088002426161, 39088002426179, 39088002426187, 39088002426195); the atlas volume is wanting
SCNHRB copy of volumes 1-4 has handwritten ownership notation in ink on the title page of each volume: "[In. Rathborne?] 1842"
SCNHRB copy of volumes 1, 3-4 are rebound in tan quarter calf with light green paste boards; volume 2 has been rebound in medium brown half calf with marble boards; volume 2 has Hrdlicka Library bookplate
Topic:
Natural history  Search this
Birds  Search this
Indians of South America  Search this
Travel  Search this
HISTORIA NATURAL  Search this
AVES  Search this
Description and travel  Search this
DESCRIPCIONES Y VIAJES  Search this
Call number:
F2671.A99
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_106407