76/1075 [South America]. Juan, G. and Ulloa, A. de. Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des Konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan, Commandeur van Aliaga, Ridder van Maltha, en Bevelhebber van de Compagnie der Edele Opzieneren over de Scheepvaart; en door Don Antonio de Ulloa, Luitenant van dezelfde Compagnie (...). Goes, J. Huysman, 1771/ 1772, 2 vols., (8),XXIV,428; VIII,IV,406,(1)p., engr. frontisp., 2 ident. title-vignettes, 1 large vignette above dedication, 14 fold. maps/ plans and 11 (fold.) plates by i.a. H. VINKELES and J. VAN SCHLEY, 1 table, modern unif. boards w. contemp. backstrip laid down on spine, 4to.

- Both vols. (badly) waterstained and mouldy throughout in lower outer corner (also affecting most of the plates). Sold w.a.f.

= Sabin 36804; Borba de Moraes p.430-431 (Spanish ed., mentioning a French translation, not listing a Dutch transl.); Tiele 1120; Cat. NHSM p.281. "Juan and Ulloa's Travels may be selected as the most entertaining and satisfactory work of its kind; they are the acknowledged source of much that has been published in other forms" (Sabin 36813). "This voyage arose out of the desire of the French Government (...) to send certain members of the Academy of Sciences to measure a degree of longitude in the equinoctial countries of Peru. (...) the King of Spain conceived the idea of sharing the honor of a scheme devoted to the advancement of knowledge, and sent two of the most scientific officers of the Spanish navy to accompany the expedition. 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 a love of science". (Cox II, p.275 on the English ed.). The first Dutch edition (first published in Spanish in Madrid in 1748) of this description of the whole of South America. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XLIV.