Two documents signed ("Walckenaer" and "Bn Walckenaer"), one manuscript with printed heading "Prefecture de la Seine" and other detail, the other a printed form with heading Institut de France / Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres".

Author: 
Baron Walckenaer [Charles Athanase Walckenaer]
Publication details: 
{Paris} 1816 and 1846 respectively.
£300.00
SKU: 4055

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 clear and complete. (Ist ITEM, 1816) a "Conseil de Prefecture,Seance du Jeudi 17 Octobre 1816 / Present M. Narchand, Champion & LeConte, membres du Conseil, etc". A secretarial hand outlines(an "Extrait") the case of something erected ("murs de cloture") without permission between "la barriere de Vaugerard et celle des fourneaux, Commune de Vaugerard", affecting something built for the defense of Paris. Details are given, and details of the decision to have the erection removed. The Extrait is signed boldly "Walckenaer" and has a note in a different hand in the margin that the distiguished engineer, Navier, was given the task "de surveiller l'executuion des dispositions de la presente decision . ..". An illegible signature follows this note. (2nd ITEM, 1846) A mix of printing and manuscript, "L'Academie a recu L'ouvrage que vous avez bien voulu lui addresser, intitule: De l'industrie primitive, ou des arts a leur origine, en Vol. 8 [This title in manuscript (secretarial)] J.ai l'honneur de vous offrir ses remerciements, [manuscript following] et de vous faire . . . l'Academie prend a votre travail. [Printed following] Cet ouvrage a ete depose dans la Bibliotheque de l'Institut . . . " Signed "B[aron]n Walckenaer". Two items,