643 - ORTEGA, CASIMIRO GÓMEZ DE

ORTEGA, CASIMIRO GÓMEZ DE "VOYAGE OF COMMANDER BYRON AROUND THE WORLD—recently undertaken by order of the Admiralty of England: in which is given an account of various countries, the customs of their inhabitants, and the strange plants and animals found there: together with a very detailed description of the Strait of Magellan, and of a certain nation of giants, called the Patagonians” M.: Royal Press of the Gazette, 1769. Small quarto, parchment. Frontispiece + 8 leaves + 176 pages. Followed by: Casimiro de Ortega, “HISTORICAL SUMMARY OF THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD, undertaken by Ferdinand Magellan, and successfully completed by the famous Spanish captain Juan Sebastián del Cano, a native of Guetaria in Guipúzcoa,” M.: Royal Press of the Gazette, 1769. 6 leaves. + 55 pages + Engraved folded map, with watercolor outlines. Palau 38230. .