Francisco de Paula Mellado
Encyclopedia
Francisco de Paula Mellado was a Spanish geographer
, journalist
, writer
and editor
who published the Enciclopedia moderna
between 1851 and 1855.
Geographer
A geographer is a scholar whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society.Although geographers are historically known as people who make maps, map making is actually the field of study of cartography, a subset of geography...
, journalist
Journalist
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, writer
Writer
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and editor
Editor
The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...
who published the Enciclopedia moderna
Enciclopedia moderna
Enciclopedia moderna is a Spanish encyclopedia published in Madrid by Francisco de Paula Mellado between 1851 and 1855...
between 1851 and 1855.
Works
- Aventuras extraordinarias de los viageros célebre, Madrid, 1850.
- Diccionario de artes y manufacturas..., Madrid: Est. Tip. de Mellado, 1856-57, 4 vol.
- Diccionario universal de historia y geografía, Madrid: Est. Tip. de Francisco de Paula Mellado, 1846-50, 8 vol.
- España geográfica, histórica, estadística y pintoresca:..., Madrid: Mellado: Gabinete literario, 1845, 946 pág.
- Guía del viajero de España, Madrid: Est. Tipogr., 1846.
- Recuerdos de un viaje por España, Madrid: Vieja España, 1975, 3 vol.
- Others