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ULLOA [Y DE LA TORRE GIRAL] (1716-1795), Antonio de and Jorge JUAN [Y SANTACILLA] (1713-1773). Voyage Historique De L'Amérique Méridionale Fait Par Ordre Du Roi D'Espagne. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstée & Merkus, 1752.
2 volumes, 4o (250 x 192 mm). 2 engraved frontispiece and 54 engraved maps, plans and views (on 53 sheets), most folding (map of the Pacific with a few small paper flaws affecting letters, some occasional short tears, nicks, intermittent browning and pale spotting). (Some pale marginal dampstaining at end of vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (some rubbing, joints partly cracked).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Ulloa and Juan were attached to a French expedition organised by the Académie des Sciences to South America, as "two of the most scientific" (Sabin) officers of the Spanish navy. After long and varied journeys, the two were back in Spain by 1746 and began to compile the present work, Juan taking charge of the scientific observations and Ulloa the historical aspect of the expedition. It was first published in Madrid in 1748--misleadingly, some copies of the French edition bore a Parisian imprint. The work includes the earliest recorded reference to the "aurora australis." Hill, p.297; JCB I, 974; Sabin 36812; Palau 125473. (2)
2 volumes, 4o (250 x 192 mm). 2 engraved frontispiece and 54 engraved maps, plans and views (on 53 sheets), most folding (map of the Pacific with a few small paper flaws affecting letters, some occasional short tears, nicks, intermittent browning and pale spotting). (Some pale marginal dampstaining at end of vol. 2.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (some rubbing, joints partly cracked).
FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Ulloa and Juan were attached to a French expedition organised by the Académie des Sciences to South America, as "two of the most scientific" (Sabin) officers of the Spanish navy. After long and varied journeys, the two were back in Spain by 1746 and began to compile the present work, Juan taking charge of the scientific observations and Ulloa the historical aspect of the expedition. It was first published in Madrid in 1748--misleadingly, some copies of the French edition bore a Parisian imprint. The work includes the earliest recorded reference to the "aurora australis." Hill, p.297; JCB I, 974; Sabin 36812; Palau 125473. (2)