A Voyage To South America. Describing At Large The Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &C. On That Extensive Continent &C. &C. Juan Don George And Ulloa Don Antonio.

Two volumes, octavo (20.5 x 14cm). The second English edition after that of 1758, printed in an edition of 750 copies. Translated from the Spanish by John Adams. 'The voyage arose out of the desire of the French government to send certain members of the Academy of Sciences and scientific officers of the Spanish Navy to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru. This party carried on a series of operations of unexampled difficulty and encountered hardships and sufferings which demanded the strength of the strongest constitutions and the energy of minds stimulated by the love of science.'- Cox. Vol. I, pp. xx,[4],498; Vol. II, pp. [iv],410,[18]. With seven folding copper-engraved plates, one of which has a small closed marginal tear to a lower fold. Some occasional light foxing. An excellent copy in contemporary full calf, lighty rubbed, the spine in six panels with raised bands, gilt, the spine heads very neatly repaired, the rear hinge of the first volume slighty cracked, but the whole sound & tight. Contemporary MS ownership inscription of C. Mackenzie to each fep dated 1768. Vg. [Sabin 36813; Boucher de la Richarderie VI, 331; Cox II, 275; Lowndes 2739; Howgego I, 1042; Smith Bibliotheca Americana 1671: Maslen & Lancaster 4282]