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La Condamine, Charles Marie de - Relation Abrege d'un Voyage fait dans L'Interieure De L'Amerique Meridionale
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| Schrijver: | La Condamine, Charles Marie de |
| Titel: | Relation Abrege d'un Voyage fait dans L'Interieure De L'Amerique Meridionale |
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| Uitgever: | Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, Maestricht 1778 |
| Bijzonderheid: | 8vo, original wrappers, worn and spine repaired. in a modern cloth drop-back box. Folding frontispiece, (4), xvi, 379 pages, folding map of the Amazon aeria. Uncut, some browning. |
| Prijs: | € 750,00 |
| Meer info | New augmented edition, containing 60 pages of previously unpublished material, including the important letter from Godin to La Condamine. According to Borba de Moraes this Maastricht edition is more difficult to find than the Paris first edition of 1745. This mission became famous not only for its scientific findings, but also for a series of tragic and picturesque circumstances which attended it, some attributable to chance and others to the conflicting temperaments of the participants . La Condamine's «Relation» is of great importance, because for the first time the long course of the Amazon was traversed by a man of science capable of making astronomic observations, and determining longitudes.” |
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