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$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

REGISTRO ESTADISTICO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES. The extremely rare initial twelve issues of the first statistical register for the province of Buenos Aires. The publication was created by government decree on December 13, 1821, reprinted here in the first issue published on February 15, 1822. The REGISTRO ESTADISTICO... was charged with publishing statistics documenting conditions throughout the province, with additional causes, notes, and observations. The issues are a fascinating compilation of facts and figures regarding all aspects of life in Buenos Aires in the early period of independence. On a regular basis, data concerning geography, meteorology, the movement of populations, and hospitals were recorded. Other areas documented in these issues include commerce, means of production, and education (including courses taught at the university). The first eleven numbers were issued monthly February through December 1822; the twelfth issue was published March 1823. An extremely rare government publication documenting the political economy of Buenos Aires in the early 1820s. OCLC lists nine locations for the register, but only Cornell for the earliest issues.

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