huntington library quarterly | vol. 70, no. 1  129 Pp. 129–151. ©2007 by Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. issn 0018-7895 | e-issn 1544-399x. All rights reserved. For permission to photocopy or reproduce article content, consult the University of California Press Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/hlq.2007.70.1.129  in the spring of 1788, naturalist Antonio Pineda readied to embark on the circumnavigation led by Alejandro Malaspina. 1 he voyage, undertaken between 1789 and 1794, represented the Spanish response to the expeditions of James Cook and Jean François Galaup de La Pérouse. In preparation for the trip Malaspina, its pro- ponent and director, drated a list of the scientiic instruments that had to be procured. he document enumerates the types of specialized devices that historians have rightly described as representative of the eighteenth-century concern for standardization and accurate measurement: thermometers, hygrometers, other types of meteorological in- struments, and lenses. 2 Pineda’s own list of the items he considered necessary to fulill I am grateful to participants in the conference “he Early Modern Travel Narrative: Production and Consumption,” held by the USC–Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute in May 2004, and to members of the Program in the History of Science at Princeton University for their feedback on an early version of this essay. Peter C. Mancall provided helpful comments on a more recent drat. 1. Among the vast literature on the Malaspina expedition are La expedición Malaspina, 1789–1794, 9 vols. (Madrid 1987–99); Andrew David, ed., he Voyage of Alejandro Malaspina to the Paciic 1789–1794 (London, 2000); Robin Inglis, ed., Spain and the North Paciic Coast: Essays in Recognition of the Bicentennial of the Malaspina Expedition, 1791–1792 (Vancouver, 1992); and Juan Pimentel, La física de la monarquía: Ciencia y política en el pensamiento colonial de Alejandro Malaspina (1754–1810) (Madrid, 1998). On Pineda, see Andrés Galera Gómez, La ilustración española y el conocimiento del Nuevo Mundo: Las ciencias naturales en la expedición Malaspina (1789–1794): La labor cientíica de Antonio Pineda (Madrid, 1988), as well as La expedición Malaspina, vol. 8: “Trabajos zoológicos, geológicos, químicos y físicos en Guayaquil de Antonio Pineda Ramírez.” 2. Antonio Malaspina, “Lista de libros e instrumentos,” cited in Galera Gómez, La ilustración es- pañola y el conocimiento del Nuevo Mundo, 23. On instruments in expeditions, see Marie-Noëlle Bour- guet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum, eds., Instruments, Travel, and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century (New York and London, 2002); and Jordan Kellman, Discovery and Enlightenment at Sea: Maritime Exploration and Observation in the Eighteenth- Century French Scientiic Community (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1998). Exploration in Print: Books and Botanical Travel from Spain to the Americas in the Late Eighteenth Century Daniela Bleichmar