Casimiro Gómez Ortega

CASIMIRO GÓMEZ ORTEGA (Toledo, 1741 - Madrid, 1818).
"Compendium of the treatise of the famous Duhamel du Monceau on sowing and planting of trees and their cultivation or means of multiplying and raising trees in thickets and poplar groves: of forming mountains and forests; and of conserving and restoring the deteriorated ones".
Printer: Royal Printing House. Madrid, 1805.
In good condition with paste covers.
Measurements: 17.5 x 11 x 3.5 cm.
Casimiro Gómez de Ortega was a Spanish physician and botanist, First Professor of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. Under the reign of Charles III of Spain, Gómez de Ortega directed the formation of the Royal Botanical Garden as a place, in particular, to collect and study new plant species identified by European explorers. Gómez de Ortega published extensively on plant species and on the economic botany of plants collected during the Spanish-sponsored explorations of South America.