Attributed to Charles-Marie de la Condamine by Alden, Cioranescu and Moraes

The "Lettre a Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitee en la ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29. d'août 1739", [Paris: chez la veuve Pissot?], 1746, is sometimes bound with this edition of La Condamine's Relation; it is unclear whether the "Lettre" was issued with a "second issue" of the Relation in 1746

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) a⁸ A-N⁸ O⁴ (O3 signed as Oiiij) chi²

Errata: p. 216

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head pieces; initials

Alden, J.E. European Americana

Cioranescu, A. 18.s.

Rodrigues, J.C. Bib. brasiliense

Moraes, R.B. de Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.)

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound separately

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 half bound in contemporary calf and marbled boards, with stamped coat of arms belonging to John Stuart, Earl of Bute

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: section of John Earl of Bute's armorial bookplate pasted to verso of the page leaf; same coat of arms stamped into front and back boards

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound as 1st item of 2 with copy 1 of : Lettre a Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitee en la ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29. d'août 1739, [Paris: chez la veuve Pissot?], 1746

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in full contemporary mottled calf

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 has engraved plate belonging to "Lettre a Madame *** sur l'emeute populaire excitee en la ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29. d'août 1739" bound as frontipiece; the Privilege, p. [1-4], 4th count, misbound after p. 108 of "Lettre a Madame ***"

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