QUER Y MARTINEZ, JOSÉ. Flora Espanola. Madrid: Joachim Ibarra, 1762-1764. 4 vols., 4to, 262 x 196mm., contemporary Spanish figured sheep gilt, neat repairs to joints, head and foot of spines of vols.III and IV repaired, some spotting of contents, second plate in vol.II holed, the third in with marginal tear, plate numbered XVI in vol.III torn into image area. FIRST EDITION. Half-titles, titles with engraved vignettes, 188 engraved plates. Monastery at Montserrat, stamp on versos of titles; KKM, bookplate -- ORTEGA, CASIMIRO GOMEZ DE. Continuacion de la Flora Espanonla. Madrid: Ibarra, 1784. 2 vols., 4to, 263 x 187mm., contemporary Spanish tree sheep, joints slightly weak, titles and half-titles stained, upper outer corners of plates in first vol. stained. FIRST EDITION. 22 engraved plates, 4 of them folding. KKM/HSNY, bookplate. The two works are generally treated as one: Quer y Martinez died in 1764, and twenty years elapsed before Ortega completed this major Spanish flora, which embraces both the systems of Tournefort and Linnaeus. Nissen BBI 1574; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8421. (6)