Tableau de l'état actuel du Pérou. -- Voyages des pères Manuel Sobreviela et Narcisse Girbal-y-Barcelo. -- Description de différentes provinces de Pérou

First published in Spanish in the periodical "Mercurio peruano", which was published at Lima, 1791-1795 in 12 vols. Joseph Skinner, having obtained the first 4 vols., translated selections from them, which he published under the title "The present state of Peru", in 1805. A German edition appeared at Hamburg, 1806

In 1807-1808 there was published at Weimar a work entitled "Peru nach seinem Gegenwärtigen zustande", under the editorship of F.J. Bertuch. Vol. 1 was a translation of Skinner, v.2 a translation of selections from v. 5-10 of "Mercurio peruano"

The present work is a translation, v. 1 from Skinner's English work and v. 2 from Bertuch's second volume

Atlas contains hand colored illustrations

Pagination: v. 1: [4], xii, 385, [1] p.; v. 2: [4], 427, [1] p

Signatures: v. 1: pi⁸ 1-24⁸ 25² (-25₂); v. 2: pi² 1-26⁸ 27⁶

Publisher's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] (1st count); v. 2, p. [1] (3rd count)

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Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.)

John Carter Brown Library copy of the atlas is shelved in 1-Size, and is bound in contemporary marbled boards

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Maury A. Bromsen : bibl. record

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Divestiture Fund

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