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Baron [G.J.A.] de Stassart, Belgian miscellaneous writer Autograph Letter Signed to "le Comte Cossilla, conservateur des Archives Royales, a [Turin?]". In French. One page, 4to, blank bifoliate, fold marks, mainly good condition. The central subject is autograph-collecting. He initially refers to the "interessants" autographs which Cossilla sent him in 1841and which had not arrived by a diplomatic conduit but only 4 or 5 months previously. He... |
French | £85.00 | |
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Baron Antoine Marie Heron de Villefosse Autograph Note, either secretarial and third person AND/OR signed "Baron [de] Villefosse. Engineer. "Born in Paris on June 21, 1774, former Adviser of State, free Member of the Academy of Science, [he] was, in 1832, general Inspecteur of 1st class and president of the general Council of the Mines" (from Internet). Also author. One page, 8vo, good condition. Text either third person... |
Book Trade History, French | £80.00 | |
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Baron Bunsen, Autograph Note Signed to "Mr MacGeady" Prussian ambassador. One page, 8vo. He announces his arrival (in Italy), gives informnation about his post and what he wants done with it. |
History | £50.00 | |
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Baron Bunsen. Autograph Letter Signed to the Lord Mayor of London. Baron C.C.J. Bunsen, Prussian diplomat and scholar (1791-1860). He helps the Lord Mayor with his plans for returning the visit of the King of Prussia in January 1842. He gives detailed information on the route and means of transport, including timings, instructs him on the protocol of contacting... |
History | £60.00 | |
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Baron Georges Cuvier [Baron Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier] (1769-1832), French naturalist [Theodore Richomme; Aimée Zoe Lizinka de Mirbel] Letter: Folio (30.5 x 20 cm), 1 p. Bifolium, with text on recto of first leaf and address (with several postmarks) on reverse of second. Five lines. Text clear and complete, with good clear signature. Fair, on aged and lightly-creased paper, with 1.5 cm closed tear in top left-hand corner (not... |
French, History | £225.00 |
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Baron Hendrik Fagel [Henry Fagel] (1765-1838), Dutch Ambassador to London [Holland; the Netherlands] Autograph Letter Signed ('H Fagel') to unnamed male correspondent. 4to, 2 pp. Text clear and entire. On aged paper with a few closed tears to extremities and a thin strip of discoloration along one margin on reverse. 'The Royal Netherland Navy have made use of Coaltar for preserving certain parts of vessels of war from decay', but 'the Medical Department in the... |
Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history | £75.00 | |
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Baron Louis Costaz (1767-1842), French mathematician and engineer Autograph Letter Signed ('Costaz') to 'Monsieur Dupont' and his son. 12mo, 1 p, 12 lines. Inviting 'M.M. Dupont, père et fils' to help him eat 'le civet d'un lievre qui a eu la Bêtise de se laisser tuer par une femme du hameau du Mousseau'. |
French | £75.00 | |
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Baron Simon Bernard (1779-1839), French general of engineers, who did much military work for the United States government Written in a neat, close hand (not Bernard's) on one page (the recto of the first leaf of a 12mo bifolium). Twenty-one lines. Text clear and complete. On aged, grubby and lightly-creased paper. The document gives four questions, with Bernard's reply following in quotation marks: 'Ladies who have... |
French, History, Royalty, Social history | £56.00 |
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Baron Walckenaer [Charles Athanase Walckenaer] Geographer, entomologist, pioneer biographer, etc. ("In 1839 he was appointed conservator for the Department of Maps at the Royal Library in Paris and in 1840 secretary for life in the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.") Total three pages, folio (2) and 4to (1), some damage, but texts... |
French, Military and Naval History, Science, Medicine and Technology, Social history | £300.00 | |
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Baroness Howe Autograph note, third person, to [Ackerman]. Two pages, 7.5 x 4.5, page trimmed without obvious loss, spike-hole, text clear. "Instead of the Repository[underlined] of Arts[underlined] for November/ which is the Magazine which the Baroness Howe has taken from its first publication/ Mr Akerman [sic] has sent her a Magazine & a Bill for... |
Book Trade History, Literature, Women | £50.00 |