Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale : depuis la côte de la mer du Sud, jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil & de la Guiane, en descendant la riviere des Amazones, lûe à l'assemblée publique de l'Académie des Sciences, le 28. avril 1745. /
The first part of this voyage was undertaken as a scientific expedition to measure the length of a degree of longitude near the Equator. La Condamine and his party arrived in Quito (present-day Ecuador) in June 1736. Due to delays, quarrels and other problems (including the murder of the ship's...
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A Paris :
Chez la Veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, a la Croix d'Or,
M. DCC. XLV. [1745]
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Cushing: Dawson French (Does not check out)
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F2546 L148 1745 |
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Inscribed in ink by J. Catuffe, 26 February 1746. There was a Jean Catuffe in AMsterdam during that time. The Baron Cloots, to whom Catuffe presented this copy, cannot have been Anacharsis Cloots, who was born in 1755, but he might have been Anacharsis's father. Ownership stamp of the Bibliotheca Collegii Maximi Traiectensis on title page verso. In original marbled wrappers. |
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