Author: Castillo, Abel Romeo
Title: Don Pedro Franco Dávila, El Sabio Guayaquileño Olvidado. (Fragmentos Del Discurso de Incorpoación Al Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de Guayaquil)
Description: Guayaquil, Edicions Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. 11 pp. Illus. with 4 b/w photos. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to Maury Bromsen. Signed gift card from author laid in loose. Pedro Franco Davila (ca. 1710-1775), Peruvian naturalist (born in Ecuador) who moved to Paris and whose fabulous collection formed the backbone of Spain's National Museum of Natural History (then the Royal Cabinet of Natural History). Slight sunning to front wrapper, leaves browned, a very good or better copy.

Keywords: Natural History, , Latin America, South America, Natural History, Davila, Pedro Francisco, Text in Spanish, Natural History, Ecuador, Peru,


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