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(SOUTH AMERICA.) La Condamine, Charles Marie de. Journal du Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi, a l'Equateur. 3 folding maps and plans, 9 other plates and folding tables. 4to, modern half calf, original spine label laid down; very minor foxing, a spot of marginal dampstaining in gathering Aa; bookplate of Alberto Parreño on front pastedown. One volume, without the 1754 supplement. Paris, 1751
first edition of La Condamine''s account of the important French Geodesic Mission through modern Peru and Ecuador, measuring the curvature of the earth at the equator. A clean and attractive copy. Palau 59002; Sabin 38479; Swann Parreño sale, 9 March 1978, lot 549.
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