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LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701-1774). Relation abrge d'un voyage fait dans l'interieure de l'Amrique mridionale . Paris: Veuve Pissot, 1745. 8 o (196 x 119 mm). Folding engraved map. Contemporary French mottled calf (rebacked). Provenance : James Jardine (signature on front flyleaf); Nat. Atcheson (bookplate); Ruben J. Dussaut (bookplate). FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF THE AMAZON. The Relation abrge d'un Voyage contains la Condamine's account of his return from Peru to the Atlantic coast of South America, via the Amazon river. La Condamine was one of three scientists sent to Peru by the Acadmie des Sciences in 1735 to measure degrees of meridian at the Equator. Palau 58996; Norman 1247. [ Bound with :] [LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de]. Lettre a Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excite en la ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29 d'aot 1739 contre les acadmiciens des sciences . - Pieces justificatives, pour servir de preuve la pluspart des faits allgus dans la lettre prcdente . [Paris: n.p.], 1746-45. 8 o . Engraved folding plate. FIRST EDITION of this work "largely concerned with the judicial proceedings following the death of the surgeon Jean Seniergues, which occurred during a riot staged by the population of Cuenca in Peru in 1739 against the French geodesists sent by the Acadmie to measure degrees of meridian at the equator" (Norman). Palau 58997; Wellcome III, p. 426; Norman 1248.