LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de (1701-1774). Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'amerique méridionale . Paris: Le Veuve Pissot, 1745.
LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de (1701-1774). Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'amerique méridionale . Paris: Le Veuve Pissot, 1745. 8 o (194 x 125 mm). "Privilege du Roi" bound at end. Folding map. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece (front joint splitting, rear joint with small repair at head of spine, corners worn). Provenance : Joseph-Claude Anthelme Récamier (1774-1856), professor of medicine at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. In 1735 La Condamine was sent to Peru by the Académie des Sciences to measure degrees of meridian at the Equator. This work documents his journey homeward from Peru to the Atlantic coast of South America via the Amazon River. The map of the Amazon in this volume is the first to have been drawn with the latitudes observed. Borba de Moraes I:446; Norman 1247; Palau 129370; Sabin 38485. [ Bound with: ] [LA CONDAMINE]. Lettre à Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitée en la ville de Cuenca au Perou... - Piéces justicatives pour servir de preuve à la pluspart des faits allégués dans la lettre précédente... [Paris: n.p.], 1746-1745. 8 o. Engraved folding plate. FIRST EDITION. These works mainly deal with the judicial proceeding following the death of Jean Seniergues, a surgeon on La Condamine's expedition, during a riot staged by the people of Cuenca in Peru against those sent by the Académie to measure the meridian. Norman 1248; Palau 129371; Sabin 38481.
LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de (1701-1774). Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'amerique méridionale . Paris: Le Veuve Pissot, 1745.
LA CONDAMINE, Charles-Marie de (1701-1774). Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'amerique méridionale . Paris: Le Veuve Pissot, 1745. 8 o (194 x 125 mm). "Privilege du Roi" bound at end. Folding map. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt, red morocco lettering piece (front joint splitting, rear joint with small repair at head of spine, corners worn). Provenance : Joseph-Claude Anthelme Récamier (1774-1856), professor of medicine at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. In 1735 La Condamine was sent to Peru by the Académie des Sciences to measure degrees of meridian at the Equator. This work documents his journey homeward from Peru to the Atlantic coast of South America via the Amazon River. The map of the Amazon in this volume is the first to have been drawn with the latitudes observed. Borba de Moraes I:446; Norman 1247; Palau 129370; Sabin 38485. [ Bound with: ] [LA CONDAMINE]. Lettre à Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitée en la ville de Cuenca au Perou... - Piéces justicatives pour servir de preuve à la pluspart des faits allégués dans la lettre précédente... [Paris: n.p.], 1746-1745. 8 o. Engraved folding plate. FIRST EDITION. These works mainly deal with the judicial proceeding following the death of Jean Seniergues, a surgeon on La Condamine's expedition, during a riot staged by the people of Cuenca in Peru against those sent by the Académie to measure the meridian. Norman 1248; Palau 129371; Sabin 38481.
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