Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), scholar... - Lot 19 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), scholar... - Lot 19 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-1794), scholar and philosopher of the Enlightenment, perpetual secretary of the Academy of Sciences from 1776 to 1793. 3 letters written in his name, to the botanist André Thouin (1747-1824). S.l.n.d. "This Tuesday". 3 pp. in-8, in-12 and in-16. "Mr. Thouin is urged to have the kindness to give Mr. Roussel, secretary of Mr. le mis de Condorcet, a few seeds of flowers in small quantity (because it is for a window garden) []". "The Marquis de Condorcet asks Monsieur Thouin, to whom he makes a thousand compliments, to take the trouble to come to his house one of these mornings to give him some seeds from the tree that gives sweet water and other seeds", etc.
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