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Historica relacion del reyno de Chile y de las missiones y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesvs.

Accession number
PML 3367
Creator
Ovalle, Alonso de, 1601-1651.
Published
Roma : F. Cavallo, 1646.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
1 leaf preceding the title, with - "Varias y curiosas noticias de Reino de Chile" ... on verso.
Title and prels. 4ff; Text pp. 1-322; 1 leaf titled in large letters = Gubernatures perillustres qui prima regni Chilenais ... followed by 9 eng'd plates; 1f. with inscription - Invicti duces, qui ad Chilenae regnum ... followed by 12 eng'd portraits; Text pp. 323-437; Index pp. 438-455; 6 pp. of geographical woodcuts and 11 pp. of woodcuts of churches, houses, etc. and 1 page (12) with woodcut map; 12 eng'd plates in the text.
The most complete ed. - the Italian one lacks the portraits.
Description
455,11, 6 p. : ill., ports., maps.
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
Department