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Duchesse d'Uzes Visiting card with autograph message. Card, 8 x 6 cm, black border. [Printed] "Duchesse d'Uzès / Douairière" with the autograph message on both sides of the card, "Laissez-moi rire d'abord et ensuite dites-moi ce que je dois lui répondre. Avec toutes mes amitiés." |
£35.00 | |
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Duchesse d'Uzes [Adrienne Anne Marie Clementine de Rochechouart - Mortemart]. Autograph Letter Signed "Desse d'Uzès" Two pages, 8vo, good condition. Text as follows: "Non, Monsieur, je ne fonde pas, un journal, mais je sais qu'on m'a demande mon avis au sujet d'un journal qui va je crois se fonder, et j'ai repondre que j'approuvais absolument l'idee; mais la se bornent mes pouvoirs. C'est a Mr le Vicomte [... |
£56.00 | |
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Herve Mangon, French engineer. Two Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed correspondent ("Mon cher maitre et excellent ami") Total 5pp., 8vo, good condition. (1872) Family matters and the election to the Bureau des Longitudes. (1876) He is going to Caen for the "inauguration de la statue de Mr E. de Beaumont". He is unhappy about "le chain fait par l'academie, car il n'a rien de scientifique et il est blessant pour un... |
£95.00 | |
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L. Gm Perreaux [Louis Guillaume Perreaux], French engineer and prolific inventor [motorbike etc] Autograph Note Signed "Perreaux" TO [J.B. Delestre, French artist and art historian]. One page, creasing and sunning but text clear and complete, as follows: Cher Monsieur/ Demain ou apres, je doit recevoir chez moi un grand amateur de livres manuscripts, seriez vous assez bon pour remettre au porteur les deux livres Arabes que je vous ai remis il y a quelques temps." Note: A... |
£400.00 | |
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Le Carpentier [L'Hospice des Vieillards, Paris]. [Autograph?] Letter signed "Le Carpentier" to the "Citoyen Ministre de l'interieur". One page, folio, foxed, clipped with some minor loss, but text clear. A request on behalf of "La Citoyenne Nicolle Guiot de St Amand" to be granted a place in L'Hospice des Vieilards ("fauxbourg St Martin"). "Elle a ete jusqu'a present a la charge de ses parens, que les circonstances presentes... |
£56.00 | |
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Louis Renault, jurist (1842-1918). Business Card or Carte de Visite Printed card, 10 x 6cm, printed "Louis Renault . Membre de l'Institut / Professeur de la Faculté de Droit" with address as above. He has added in purple ink, autograph, "Ses sincères sentiments et compliments". |
£25.00 | |
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Noel de la Morinière, L'Inspecteur des Pêches Maritimes, author of socientific books on Fish and Fishing. One page each, 4to, good condition. Subjects: his "Observations" (presumably published in the Annales); candidacy for the Academie des Sciences; addressing an extract from a Spanish periodical to Villenard; something he wishes to insert into the Annales; instruction on communicating with him... |
£200.00 | |
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Stéphane Flachat, Ingénieur, Engineer. One page, minor damage not affecting text, as follows: "D'apres a que vous avez bien voulu dire a mon frère [the eminent engineer Eugène Flachat], je viens vous demander a quelle heure, je poussais avoir l'honneur de vous voir demain dimanche; j'ai toute ma matinée a votre disposition, jusqu'à... |
£95.00 | |
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Arthur Donaldson Smith Autograph Letter Signed to Dr [Albert] Gunther. American physician and explorer of Africa (1866-1939). The recipient (1830-1914) was Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum, 1875-95, and Vice-President of the Royal Society, 1875-6. Two pages, 12mo. Very good, on slightly discoloured paper with a little light spotting. Traces... |
£150.00 | |
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Chief Jonathan M. Moshoesh [Moshesh, Moshoeshoe, Mshweshwe] , of modernday Lesotho [Basutoland] Dimensions roughly 2.3 x 11.5 cms. On paper with three vertical rules. Reads 'chief Jonathan M. Moshoesh'. Neatly laid down on larger piece of grey paper (roughly 6 x 12 cms), docketed in a contemporary hand 'Basuto chief called Jonathan. He is the biggest chief in Basutoland after "Letsia", the... |
£100.00 |
