Place of publication and name of printer from colophon of [v. 1] no. 1 (jun. 7, 1810)
Edited by Francisco Ramirez who became governor of Entre Ríos, Argentina in 1820.
Numbered issues paginated consecutively within each volume.
[Vol. 1] numbered issues, suplementos, and extraordinarias are in the format of a small quarto measuring 18 cm; [Vol. 2], beginning with issue no. 1 [nov. 5, 1811] changes format to become a folio measuring 32 cm.
The Gaceta de Buenos Aires describes events in Argentina and other neighboring countries as well as the news from Europe and the Americas. For a detailed contents listing each numbered issue and supplements of the Gaceta de Buenos Aires, see: Gaceta de Buenos Aires desde 1810 hasta 1821 by Antonio Zinny, Buenos Aires, 1875 and Historia y bibliografia de las primeras imprentas rioplatenses, tomo 4, La imprenta in Buenos Aires 1810-1815 by Guillermo Furlong, Buenos Aires, 1975.
The Gaceta de Buenos Aires is sometimes considered to have been issued in 6 volumes; what is considered to be [vol. 3] changes its title to be the Gaceta ministerial followed by the Gaceta del gobierno printed from 1812-1815; The Gaceta del gobierno is followed by a continuation of the Gaceta de Buenos Aires which is printed in [vols. 4-6] from 1815-1821.
No weekly issue printed on Dec. 20, 1810.
Furlong indexes an unnumbered issue from July 3, 1810, of which he makes a note doubting its existence.
Digital version available on Internet Archive.
Includes supplemental (Suplementos) issues printed on these dates: [v. 1] jun. 7, 1810, [v. 1] jun. 9, 1810, [v. 1] oct. 4, 1810, [v. 1] feb. 7, 1811, [v. 1] feb. 18, 1811, [v. 1] mayo 2, 1811, [v. 1] mayo 9, 1811, [v. 1] jun. 26, 1811, and [v. 1] jul. 5, 1811; [v. 2] dic. 6, 1811, [v. 2] enero 3, 1812, [v. 2] enero 10, 1812, and [v. 2] enero 31, 1812; Furlong indexes a supplement issue from June 26, 1812, which is only known from an 1816 reprint and which may simply be a misprinted date on some copies.
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