Scholars. 21 letters from the 19th century. -... - Lot 247 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Scholars. 21 letters from the 19th century. - Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794-1878), orientalist and Indianist, co-founder of the Asian Society. 7 L.A.S. to various, 1854-1871 and n.d. To Napoleon III's librarian Lefèvre Deumier (requesting an imperial audience), to Frémery of the School of Oriental Languages (on the translation into Persian and Arabic of the "novel of Sindibad"), to Benj. Duprat (commissioning works on India), on the research of works by S. de Sacy, etc. There is also a letter written during his exile to Arcisse de Caumont during the siege of Paris. - [Edmond Le Blant (1818-1897), archaeologist, director of the French School of Rome, member of the Institute (Inscriptions)]. Correspondence of 9 letters addressed to him by scholars, archaeologists, historians : Salomon Reinach, Pierre-Charles Robert, Joseph Hyacinthe Albanès, Gustave Schlumberger (long letter on his candidacy for the Institute), Paul Dubois, Eugène de Rozière (long letter on the elections to the Institute), Albert Lecoy de La Marche, Auguste Geffroy, Albert Dumont. - Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), geographer. 5 L.A.S. to various. Year 8 - 1812 and n.d. To the bookseller Michaud (sending of his new maps of Poland and Russia), to "M. le Comte" (asking for Napoleon's help "I will also beg you [] to explain to H.M. that to the merit of having chosen the two artists who executed the globe, I have attached that of many works and drawings, indispensable for this object"), also on the delivery of deliveries of the Encyclopedia, the sale of its publications (3 pp.), etc.