First English Edition
Voyage to South America. Describing at Large the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &c. on that Extensive Continent. Interspersed Throughout with Reflections on the Genius, Customs, Manners, and Trade of the Inhabitants; Together with the Natural History of the Country. And An Account of Their Gold and Silver Mines. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio De Ulloa, Both Captains of the Spanish Navy, Members of the Royal Societies of London and Berlin, And Corresponding Members of the Royal Academy at Paris. Translated from the Original Spanish. Illustrated with Copper Plates. In Two Volumes.
London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1758.
First English edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 201 x 124 mm). [2], xvi, [8], 432, 453-479, 472-509, [3, advertisements], [2, blank]; [8], 420, [18, index] pp. With seven plates, six of which are folding.
Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled red. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A bit of toning throughout. Browning from glue to endpapers. Overall a very good and handsome set.
"This translation of Ulloa's Relacion historica... was published exactly ten years after Richard Walter's official account of the Anson Voyage (q.v.), thus giving the British a valuable addition to their small fund of knowledge about the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru..." (Hill, 1741).
Hill 1741.
HBS 67187.
$2,000.
Price: $2,000.00
Item #67187