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Lettre de M. D. L. C. a M***: Sur le sort des astronomes qui ont eu part aux dernieres mesures de la terre, depuis 1735. Lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, & l'aventure tragique de Madame Godin dans son voyage de la province de Quito, à Cayenne, par la fleuve des Amazones. A Etouilly, près Ham, en Picardie, 20 oct. 1773

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Year:
1774
Contributor:
La Condamine, Charles-Marie de, 1701-1774
Godin des Odonais, Jean, 1713-1792
Subject:
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Godin des Odonais, Isabelle de Grandmaison > b. 1728?
Scientific expeditions
Shipwrecks
Amazon River
Ecuador > Description and travel
Brazil > Description and travel
French Guiana > Description and travel
France
Extent:
30, [2] p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

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Notes:
Author's full name from Barbier.
Caption title.
A collection of two letters; the second letter was written by Jean Godin des Odonais and addressed to La Condamine.
Date of publication according to Cioranescu.
Signatures: A-B⁸ (A3 verso, B8 blank)
Letter by La Condamine covers p. [1]-5; letter by Godin des Odonais has caption title: Lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, a M. de La Condamine. Saint-Amand, Berry, 28 juillet 1773 (p. [7]) and covers p. [7]-30.

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"Lettre de M. D. L. C. a M***: Sur le sort des astronomes qui ont eu part aux dernieres mesures de la terre, depuis 1735. Lettre de M. Godin des Odonais, & l'aventure tragique de Madame Godin dans son voyage de la province de Quito, à Cayenne, par la fleuve des Amazones. A Etouilly, près Ham, en Picardie, 20 oct. 1773 " (1774). John Carter Brown Library. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:732704/

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