Voyage historique de l'Amerique meridionale : fait par ordre du roi d'Espagne

Title Variants

Uniform: Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional

By

Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795

Juan, Jorge, 1713-1773
Juan, Jorge, 1713-1773 , Observacions astronomicas y physicas
Mauvillon, Eléazar, 1712-1779
Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616 , Resumen historico del origen y succession de los Incas y demas soberanos del Peru

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Amsterdam et a Leipzig Chez Arksteé & Merkus M D C C L I I.. [1752]

Notes

A translation, by E. de Mauvillon, of Ulloa's "Relacion historica del viage a la America Meridional", and of the companion work by Jorge Juan y Santacilia, entitled, "Observaciones astronomicas, y phisicas hechas de orden de S. Mag. en los reynos del Peru." Cf. Preface, v. 1, p. [9], 1st count.

Signatures: v. 1: pi1 a² b-c⁴ A-3Z⁴ 4A² (-4A2) (K4 signed K7); v. 2: pi1 A-2B⁴ 2B*⁴ 2C⁴ 2C*⁴ 2D-2R⁴ 2S² (-2s2) *⁴ A⁴ (-A1) B-2Q⁴ (C4 signed C7)

Vol. 1: [22], 554 p., [1], xxv, [i.e. 24] leaves of plates (18 folded); v. 2: [2], 200, 193*-200*, 201-208, 201*-208*, [3], 212-316, [15], 4-309, [3] p., [1] XXVI-XXXVII, [7], XXXVIII-XLVI leaves of plates (19 folded)

Each volume has engraved title vignette.

Vol. 2, p. 238 misnumbered 338.

Plates XIX and XX of v. 1 are on a single leaf.

"Abregé historique de l'origine et de la succession des Yncas, et autres souverains du Perou," by Garcilaso de la Vega, v. 2, p. [1-3], 212-316, 6th and 7th count.

Errata, v. 1, p. [21], 1st count.

"Observations astronomiques et physiques faites par ordre du roi d'Espagne pour determiner la figure et la grandeur de la terre, relativement a la navigation. Par Don George Juan," v. 2, p. [7-15], 4-309 8th and 9th count, has separate pagination and signatures.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, | III:974.

Echeverria & Wilkie. French image, | 752/10.

Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-americana, | 3464.

Subjects

America , Arc measures , Colonies , Discovery and exploration , Imprint 1752 , Indians of South America , Peru , Scientific Expeditions , Social life and customs , South America , Spain

Call Number

F2221 .U441

Language

French

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/03002341
OCLC: 1113771008