Juan Ignacio Molina, the natural and civil history of Chile (Bologna, 1782 and 1787)

Two essays by a Chilean-born Jesuit expelled with his order and writing in Italy: a natural history that carried Chilean species into the Linnaean system, and a civil history whose second book treats the Araucanians as a constituted state with tetrarchates, provinces and counties, and devotes chapters to their rhetoric, astronomy and medicine. Read here in the 1808 American translation, whose reviewer showed the translator had worked from the French.