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(SOUTH AMERICA.) La Condamine, Charles Marie de.
Journal du voyage
fait par ordre du Roi, a l’equateur
and
Mesure des trois premiers degrés du
méridien dans l’hémisphere australe.
3 folding maps, 6 folding plates. [2], xxxvi, 280,
xv; [12], 266, x pages. 2 volumes, without the 1754 supplement. 4to, matching contempo-
rary speckled calf, minor wear; edges tinted red; 1791 tag on front pastedown.
Paris: l’Imprimerie Royale, 1751
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
of La Condamine’s account of the important French Geodesic Mission
through what are now Peru and Ecuador, measuring the curvature of the earth at the equator.
Palau 59002; Sabin 38479, 38483.
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(SOUTH AMERICA.)
Group of 4 European works on South America.
4
volumes. Various sizes, bindings, and conditions.
Vp, 1748-1872
[600/900]
Abaria. Relacion de los meritos y servicios de D. Francisco Antonio de Abaría Vázquez de
Osorio y Morales, Capitan de Caballeria del número, y Batallon de la ciudad de Santiago en
el reyno de Chile. Madrid, 1771 * Ballivan y Roxas. Archivo boliviano. Colección de
documentos relatiovos a la historia de Bolivia, durante la época colonial. Paris, 1872 * Byron.
Viage del comandante Byron alrededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almiran-
tazgo de Inglatierra. Lacks map. Madrid, 1769 * Lozano. Individual e verdadeira relação da
extrema ruina, que padeceo a cidade dos Reys Lima, capital do reyno do Peru, com o horrivel
terremoto. Lisbon, 1748.
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(TEXAS.)
Breve apostólico de Pio Sexto, y estatutos generales para la
erección y gobierno de las custodias de misioneros Franciscos . . . de Nueva
España.
[2], 42. 4to, contemporary wrappers, lacking backstrip; minor dampstaining on
fore-edge, lacking the 210-page Bullas Apostólicana which is usually found bound after it.
Madrid: Ibarra, 1781
[500/750]
Pope Pius VI orders the establishment of Franciscan custodias in the northern part of New
Spain, including San Gabriel in California, San Antonio in Texas, and Concepción in New
Mexico. The statutes for governance of these custodias are appended. Medina BHA 4983;
Palau 226994; Sabin 63168; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 163.
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