TOFINO DE SAN MIGUEL, DON VICENTE.

Derrotero de las Costas de Espana en el Mediterráneo y su Correspondiente de Africa. Ecrito en los Anos de 1783 y 1784 por el Brigadier de la Real Armada. Segunda Edicion, corregida y adicionada por la Real Direccion de Hidrografia.

Madrid, Imprenta Real, 1832. Small 4to. Near contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine and with gilt lettering. Stamp on title-page. LX,243 pp. Clean and fine, printed on good paper.

Second edition of Tofino's importent Log-Book, first published 1787. (Pilot's Log-book of the Coasts of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea and Africa). "Vincente Tofiño was a rear-admiral in the Spanish navy. He was a renowned astronomer and mathematician and near the close of his career was the King’s hydrographer. Between 1783-1788, Tofiño charted the ports and coasts of Spain as well as the shore of North Africa. He eventually was elected as correspondent of the Spanish Academy of History and of the French and Portuguese Academies of Sciences."
WITHBOUND: Don Josef Luyando. Memoria en que se Manifiestan las Operaciones practicadas para lavantar fundamentalmente La carta del Estrecho de Gibraltar. Madrid, Impenta Real, 1826. - 39,(1-errata) pp.

Order-nr.: 54968