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

Place of publication and name of printed suggested from Paris: la veuve Pissot, 1745 edition of La Condamine's "Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale", with which this work is sometimes bound; it is unclear whether the "Lettre" was issued as part of a "second issue" of the "Relation" in 1746.

"Pieces justificatives, pour servir de preuve a la pluspart des faits allégués dans la lettre précédente. Lesdites pieces extraites du procès criminel de la mort du Sieur Jean Seniergues, suivi en l'Audience Royale, ou Parlement de Quito", p. [49]-108, 2nd count, has separate dated title page with imprint [Paris: chez la veuve Pissot?], 1745 [i.e. 1746]

Text in the "Pieces justificatives, pour servir de preuve a la pluspart des faits allégués dans la lettre précédente" printed in parallel columns of Spanish and French.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A-F⁸ (D1 verso blank) (A4 signed as "*") G⁶

Engraved printer's ornament on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.

Engraved folded illustration bound after title page has caption "Vuë d'une place preparée pour une course de taureaux, en la ville de Cuenca au Perou"

Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, 9263.

Landis, D.C. European Americana, 746/109.

Cioranescu, A. 18.s., 35370.

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 129371.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), I;380.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, III:829.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (D745 .L142r cop. 2) bound as 2nd item of 2 with copy 2 of: Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale, Paris: la veuve Pissot, 1745.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 has engraved folded illustration misbound as frontispiece of the ""Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amérique méridionale" and the Privilege, p. [1-4] belonging to the "Relation" misbound after p. 108.

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 bound in full contemporary mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copies 2 and 3 (D746 .L142L) bound separately.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 has p. 97-108 misbound after p. 108.

John Carter Brown Library copy 3 is untrimmed.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Le Monnier, J.-M.P: ms. autograph on title page.