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MALDONADO, Pedro (1704-1748) and Charles Marie de la CONDAMINE (1701-1774). Carta de la Provincia de Quito y de sus adjacentes. Paris: d'Anville, 1750.
Engraved map on four sheets of Ecuador, the equator, a few towns and volcanoes heightened in red, image 1138 x 800 mm (trimmed to plate margins). Large elaborately decorated cartouche, and detailed depiction of rivers, lacks, towns, volcanoes and woods. (Laid down.)
The most detailed printed map of any part of South America of its time. La Condamine embarked for Peru in 1735 with the purpose of measuring several degrees of meridian at the equator to settle the controversy between the Newtonians and the Cartesians over whether the earth was flattened or elongated at the poles. During this time he worked with Maldonado, who was working on his own survey of the area, and invited him to Europe. After Maldonado sudden death in 1748, La Condamine and d'Anville based their map closely on Maldonado's observations and noted in the cartouche that the map by Maldonado was published posthumously "obra posthuma de Don Pedro Maldonado." See Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, Chicago, 2008 pp. 203 ff.
[With:] MALDONADO, Pedro and Charles Marie de LA CONDAMINE. Carte de la Province de Quito au Perou. Petersburg, 1751. Engraved map of Ecuador, image 604 x 369 mm (trimmed to plate margins). (5)
Engraved map on four sheets of Ecuador, the equator, a few towns and volcanoes heightened in red, image 1138 x 800 mm (trimmed to plate margins). Large elaborately decorated cartouche, and detailed depiction of rivers, lacks, towns, volcanoes and woods. (Laid down.)
The most detailed printed map of any part of South America of its time. La Condamine embarked for Peru in 1735 with the purpose of measuring several degrees of meridian at the equator to settle the controversy between the Newtonians and the Cartesians over whether the earth was flattened or elongated at the poles. During this time he worked with Maldonado, who was working on his own survey of the area, and invited him to Europe. After Maldonado sudden death in 1748, La Condamine and d'Anville based their map closely on Maldonado's observations and noted in the cartouche that the map by Maldonado was published posthumously "obra posthuma de Don Pedro Maldonado." See Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, Chicago, 2008 pp. 203 ff.
[With:] MALDONADO, Pedro and Charles Marie de LA CONDAMINE. Carte de la Province de Quito au Perou. Petersburg, 1751. Engraved map of Ecuador, image 604 x 369 mm (trimmed to plate margins). (5)
