LA CONDAMINE (Charles- Marie de) Abridged report... Lot 36
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LA CONDAMINE (Charles- Marie de) Abridged report of a trip made in the interior of South America. -Letter to Madame*** on the popular riot, 1746.
Paris, the Widow Pissot, 1745 In-8.
Contemporary olive green morocco, small restorations on one hinge, double gilt fillet on the boards, all edges gilt.
ORIGINAL EDITIONS. COPY ON FINE PAPER. A map of the course of the Maragnon or Great River of the Amazons and a view of a place prepared for a bull run for the second text.
Borba de Moraes, 446-447; Sabin, 38481 The second text bears the title: "Letter to Madame*** on the popular riot excited in the City of Cuenca in Peru, the 29. d'août 1739, contre les Académiciens des Sciences, envoyés pour la mesure de la Terre, Paris, 1746" French scientific expedition to measure the size of the Earth at the Equator with Charles de la Condamine, Louis Godin (mathematician), Joseph de Jussieu (physician and naturalist) and Pierre Bouguer (mathematician and astronomer). Rare copy in contemporary morocco, very fresh.
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