From 1762 to 1780 Zúñiga y Ontiveros published Efemérides calculadas y pronosticadas según el meridiano de México.
He also published an updated version of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora's map of the valley of Mexico.
Zúñiga paid much attention to detail in the works he published, including the typefaces.
He was the first to use type cast in New Spain, by the clockmaker and printer Dimas Rangel, with whom Zúñiga edited Estatutos de la Real Academia de San Carlos (Statutes of the Royal Academy of San Carlos) (1785).
He was the author of Bomba hidráulica para levantar las aguas (Hydraulic Pump to Raise Water) (1770) and a sonnet published in Fénix de los mineros ricos (1779).