[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. BYRON, John. (1723-1786) Viage del Comandante Byron Al Rededor Del Mundo… Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1769.
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$800 -
$1,200
Sold for $750
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. BYRON, John. (1723-1786) Viage del Comandante Byron Al Rededor Del Mundo… Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gazeta, 1769.
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.
Property from the Collection of Gaspar Mayagoitia Barragán
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