La verdad en campaña : relacion historica de la plaza, presidio, y puerto de Valdivia, su exsistencia militar y politica, clima; minas, frutos; y comercio : descripcion de la calidad, religion, caracter, y costumbres de los indios, que habitan su jurisdic[ci]on y continentes hasta el Estrecho : ref

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La verdad en campaña : relacion historica de la plaza, presidio, y puerto de Valdivia, su exsistencia militar y politica, clima; minas, frutos; y comercio : descripcion de la calidad, religion, caracter, y costumbres de los indios, que habitan su jurisdic[ci]on y continentes hasta el Estrecho : reflecciones criticas, politico historicas sobre Cesares, fundadas en la experiencia, manexo, y realidad injenua de su decantacion ... / D[o]n. Pedro de Usauro Martinez de Bernabè, infanzon de sangre y naturaleza del Reino de Aragon, Capitan del batallon fixo de la expresada plaza : en tres partes añadidas en esta copia al orijinal que se ascribio año de MDCCLXXXII. [1784?]

Description of the city of Valdivia and the Indians of the area, with added critical reflections on the existence of the legendary city of the Césares.

[10], 375, [9] p., [1] folded leaf of plates, bound : map ; 22 cm.

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Benavides, Ambrosio de, 1718-1787.

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Portalexos, Stanislas,

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Usauro Martínez de Bernabé, Pedro de, 1733-1789.

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Chronicler and poet of Valdivia. Son of a well-known family, originally from Cádiz, which settled in Chile in the 18th century. He spent 30 years assembling the material for his Verdad en campaña, which eventually came to be known as the official history of Valdivia. He also wrote some rather undistinguished poetry, primarily dealing with the deaths of kings and local military achievements. From the description of La verdad en campaña : relacion historica ...