LA CONDAMINE (Charles Marie de). Abridged report of a voyage made in the interior of South America. From the coast of the South Sea, to the coasts of Brazil and Guiana, by descending the river of the Amazons, read at the public assembly of the Academy of Sciences, on April 28, 1745. By M. de La Condamine, of the same Academy. With a map of the Maragnon, or of the Amazon River, drawn by the same author. Paris, Veuve Pissot, 1745, in-8°, [4]-16-216-[4] p., full contemporary brown calf, decorated spine (front cover reinforced). First edition. Well completed with the folded map. In 1743, La Condamine reached Cayenne by sailing down the Amazon River from Jaén (Peru) to Para (Belém). He was the first scientist to have descended the Amazon; he was looking for the mythical Amazons who would populate these regions. This trip allowed him to draw a map of the Amazon River, to describe the cinchona tree, from which quinine is extracted, to discover the rubber tree and the use of curare, a poison used by the Amerindians for their arrows
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