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 riviere des Amazones

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Author: Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774) Year: 1778 Publisher: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour Philippe Roux Roux Place: Maestricht Description: xvi+379 pages with folding frontispiece copper engraving and folding map of the Amazon. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5") bound in half leather with green label to spine in gilt lettering and pictorial gilt designs over marbled boards. (Sabin 38485; Palau 129.374; Borba de Moraes I, 448) Later edition. First published in 1745. Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. After finishing his basic education in Paris, La Condamine embarked on a military career. He left the army for a brief stint (1730 31) of scientific study at the Academy of Sciences in Paris before leaving in May 1731 for what would become a yearlong sea voyage to various ports along the Mediterranean Sea coast. Returning to Paris, he reported his scientific observations on the journey to the academy. The members were sufficiently impressed to invite him to join an expedition to Peru to determine the length near the Equator of a degree of the meridian (longitude). The party, which also included scientist Pierre Bouguer, left in April 1735 and finally arrived at its destination, Quito (now in Ecuador), in June 1736. The project was fraught with delays and dissension among the participants and was not completed until early 1743. In May 1743 La Condamine left the party, deciding to return to France via the Amazon, and began a four-month raft jou

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