Small 4to (200 x 145 mm). Frontispiece bound facing p.1, engraved folding map hand-colored in outline. (Map with tears to fold crossing image, repairs verso, a few light pencil markings.) Contemporary vellum (hinges separating or starting, some light wear, lacking ties). Provenance: Pedro Robredo y Cia (bookseller’s stamp to title-page). 

 

Second edition of Casimiro Gómez de Ortega’s Spanish translation of John Byron’s A Voyage Round the World, in His Majesty's Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by the Honourable Commodore Byron (1767). Ortega was a botanist at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid and identified plant species collected during Spanish expeditions to the Americas in the 18th century.