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LA CONDAMINE, CHARLES-MARIE DE. Relation Abrégée d'un Voyage fait dans l'Intérieur de l'Amérique Méridionale Depuis la Côte de la Mer du Sud,jusqu'aux Côtes du Brésil & de la Guyane, en descendant La Rivière des Amazones . . . Nouvelle Édition. Folding engraved plate of mob in Cuenca; folding engraved map of the Amazon region. [4], xvi, 379 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, flat spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece, joints partly cracked; contents generally clean. Maastricht: Jean-Edmé Dufour & Philippe Roux, 1778
La Condamine's work on the French geodetic expedition to Peru was first published in 1745. This edition reprints his 1746 account of a riot against the French scientists in Cuenca. It also contains the first edition of the narrative by the expedition cartographer jean godin des odonais of his wife Isabel's extraordinary journey from Peru across the Amazon Basin to French Guiana to reunite with him after a 20-year separation. Borba de Moraes, page 446; DSB XV, 270-71; Hill 959; Howgego I, L9-L10 and G52-G53; Palau 129374 (this edition).
