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Creator:
Azara, Félix de, 1746-1821
Title(s):

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 de l'auteur, avec une notice sur sa vie et ses écrits par C.A. Walckenaer ; enrichis de notes par G. Cuvier ... Suivis de L'historie naturelle des oiseaux du Paraguay et de la Plata, par le même auteur, traduite d'après l'original espagnol, et augumentée d'un grand nombre de notes par M. Sonnini ; accompagnés d'un atlas de vingt-cinq planches ...

Additional Title(s):

Viajes por la América Meridional. French

Published/Created:
Paris : Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Rue de Pont-de-Lodi, no. 3, 1809.
Physical Description:
4 volumes ; 21 cm (8vo) and 1 atlas ([4] pages, [28] leaves of plates (5 folded, 3 double)) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 35 cm (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2016 31
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1358852
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Vols. 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. cf. v. 1, p. x, 384.
"Introduction a l'histoire naturelle de la province de Cochabamba": dated and signed on p. 541 "Cochabamba, 15 février 1799. Signé Tadeo Haenke.": v. 2, p. [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: v. 1: lx, 389, [1] pages; v. 2: [4], 562 pages, [3] folded leaves; v. 3: [4], ii, 479, [1] pages; v. 4: [4], 380 pages.
Signatures: v. 1: pi² *⁴ A-C⁸ 1-24⁸ 25² chi² (-chi2) (chi1 verso blank); v. 2: pi² 1-35⁸ 36² (-36₂); v. 3: pi² *² (-*²) (30₈ verso blank); v. 4: pi² 1-23⁸ 24⁴ 25².
Bookseller's advertisements: v. 1, p. [ii].
Errata: v. 2, p. [2] (vols. 1-2); v. 3: p. [2]; v. 4, p. [2].
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
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
BAC: British Art Center copy text volumes bound in contemporary tree calf; rebacked. Atlas volume bound in original boards, with printed labels. With bookplates and autographs of Pedro N. Arata, Buenos Aires. With Arata's notes in graphite, v. 2, pages 388-390. Also signed in manuscript by Sir Woodbine Parish. Bookseller's label of Masson et Fils, Paris.
Subject Terms:
Arata, Pedro N. (Pedro Narciso), 1849-1922 -- Bookplate.
Birds -- Paraguay.
Indians of South America.
Natural history -- Paraguay.
Paraguay -- Description and travel.
Parish, Woodbine, Sir, 1796-1882 -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Booksellers' advertisements.
Contributors:
Walckenaer, C. A. (Charles Athanase), 1771-1852.
Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832.
Sonnini, C. S. (Charles Sigisbert), 1751-1812.
Haenke, Tadeáš, 1761-1817. Introduction a l'histoire naturelle de la province de Cochabamba.
Azara, Félix de, 1746-1821. Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los pájaros del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata. French.
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