Author: DON ANTONIO DE AND DON GEORGE JUAN ULLOA
Title: A Voyage to South America:
Date: 1758
Price: GBP £ 2,500
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A Voyage to South America: Describing at Large, the Spanish Cities, Towns, Provinces, &c. on that extensive Continent. Interspersed throughout with Reflexions on whatever is peculiar in the Religion and Civil Policy; in the Genius, Customs, Manners, Dress, &c. &c. of the several Inhabitants; whether Natives, Spaniards, Creoles, Indians, Mulattoes, or Negroes. Together with the Natural as well as Commercial History of the Country. And an account of their Gold and Silver Mines. Undertaken by Command of the King of Spain, by Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa, [b]oth Captains of the Spa...
 
London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers 1758 2 vols. 8vo. Full  Contemporary Red Morocco gilt, with 7 folding engraved plates and maps.
                                                                                            
                                                                                                        £2,500.00

First English edition detailing the journey of a French scientific expedition from the perspective of the South American Ulloa whom accompanied them on the mission. "The end result was a fund of important scientific observations in various fields, as well as the knowledge that the earth was not perfectly spherical, but flattened at the poles."
Hill 1739 and 1741. Sabin 36873.