JUAN, Jorge, and Antonio de ULLOA.

A voyage to South America describing at large, the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. Undertaken by command of the king of Spain, by Don George Juan and Don Antonio de Ulloa, both captains of the Spanish navy; fellows of the Royal Society of London; members of the Royal Academy at Paris, &c. &c. Translated from the original Spanish. The third edition: to which are added by Mr John Adams, of Waltham-Abbey, who resided several years in those parts, occasional notes and observations; an account of some parts of the Brazils, hitherto unknown to the English nat...

London, Lockyer Davis, 1772. 2 vols, 8vo (215 x 130 mm), pp. xxiv, 479, [1, blank]; [iv], 419, [1, blank], [14, index], with five folding maps and two folding plates; early calf, rebacked. A translation of Relacion historica del viage á la America meridional (1748) written by Jorge Juan y Santacilla and Antonio de Ulloa, who accompanied La Condamine’s voyage of 1735 to South America. The expedition, the first non-Spanish or Portuguese one to be allowed to travel into South America by Spanish authorities, was given permission on the grounds that it be accompanied by Spanish officers. Thus Juan and Ulloa, both officers and mathematicians for the Spanish navy, travelled to Cartagena where they met the French contingent and begun an eight year study of Peru and Ecuador. Between them they managed to carry out detailed surveys of Cartagena, Quito, Callao, the Juan Fernandez islands and Concepción, Juan handling the mathematical and hydrographical aspects of the surveys and Ulloa the history, geography and natural history of the regions. The results of their findings were published in the Relación historica, which proved highly detailed and valuable as it contained much information previously unknown about South America. Years later, when Alessandro Malaspina was planning his voyage to the Pacific, it was Antonio de Ulloa whom he sought for advice.‘The value of this third edition is very much enhanced, by a number of curious, instructive, and explanatory notes. These cannot fail of giving great satisfaction to the reader, as they serve to rectify some mistakes, and to set a variety of passages in a clearer light, from the writer’s thorough acquaintance with the subjects treated in these voyages. He has also given a very accurate account of those parts of Brazil least known to us; and which may be therefore seperated as a useful, as well as proper, supplement; and render the work, taken altogether, as complete as even a critical reader can desire’ (preface). The first English edition appeared in 1758.Palau 125479; Sabin 36813.

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