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• Author/Creator:Schmidtmeyer, Peter.
  
• Title:Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the years 1820 and 1821 : with some sketches of the productions and agriculture : mines and metallurgy : inhabitants, history, and other features, of America : particularly of Chile, and Arauco : illustrated with thirty plates : plans of Santiago, the capital of Chile : and of the post road across the Pampas : itineraries, &c. / by Peter Schmidtmeyer.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed by S. McDowall, 95, Leadenhall Street, for the author and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, Paternoster Row, 1824.
  
• Physical Description:378, [2] p., [29] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. ; 28 x 22 cm.
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: Beckford 345
    
  • Status:No information available 

  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: CF2223 +S35
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: F2223 .S36 1824+ Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN Beckford 345: William Beckford's copy, with his penciled notes.
  BEIN Beckford 345: Imperfect: partly stained.
  BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy.
  
• Notes:First issued in 1822 under title "Travels to Chile over the Andes in the years 1820 and 1821" with 14 plates and 240 pages of text.
  Includes index.
  Illustrations by George Scharf and Agostino Aglio; after Peter Schmidtmeyer and James Paroissien.
  Illustrations printed by Rowney & Forster, N. Chater & Co., M. Motte & Co., and J. Boosey & Co.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 715
  
• Subjects:Voyages and travels.
  Argentina--Description and travel.
  Chile--Description and travel.
  Andes--Description and travel.
  South America--Description and travel.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Beckford, William, 1760-1844--Binding (BEIN Beckford 345).
  
• Genre/Form:Lithographs.
  Hand coloring.
  
• Also listed under:Schmidtmeyer, Peter, illustrator.
  Pariossien, James, 1783-1827, illustrator.
  Scharf, George, 1788-1860, engraver.
  Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857, engraver.