Geschichte de Abiponer, eine berittenen und kriegerischen Nation in Paraguay. :
Bereichert mit einer Menge Beobachtungen über die wilden Völkerschaften, Städte, Flüsse, vierfüssigen Thiere, Amphiben, Inseketen, merkwürdigsten Schlangen, Fische, Vog̈el, Baüme, Pflanzen, und andere Eigenschaften dieser Provinz. /
Verfasst von Herrn Abbe Martin Dobrizhoffer ... ; Aus dem Lateinischen übersetzt von A. Kreil ...

Description

Main Author: Dobrizhoffer, Martin, 1717-1791.
Related Names: Kreil, A.
Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)
Language(s): German
Published: Wien, : Bei Joseph Edlen von Kurzbek ..., 1783-1784.
Subjects: Abipon Indians.
Paraguay > Paraguay / Description and travel > Paraguay / Description and travel / Early works to 1800.
Note: Errata: v. 1: p. [1]-[4] of last group; v. 2: p. [2]-[4] of last group; v. 3: p. [2]-[4] of last group.
Vol.1: [28], 564, [4], p.; v. 2: [6], 3-603, [5] p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 606, [8] p., [3] folded leaves of plates.
Translation by A. Kreil of: Historia de Abiponibus equestri, bellicosaque Paraquariae natione.
"Highly eulogized by Coleridge, Southey, Charles Lamb, Lowndes, and Brunet. It is almost the only work relating to this almost unknown tribe of Indians"--Sabin.
Physical Description: 3 v. : ill., maps ; 19 cm.
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