Tuscany - Florence. Giovanni de Baillou (1758-1819)... - Lot 312 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Tuscany - Florence. Giovanni de Baillou (1758-1819) Italian geographer, in charge of the geographical and administrative division of the Tuscan departments under the Empire. Set of about 90 autograph manuscripts (numerous corrections), with letters or pieces addressed to him (printed qqs), 1803-1818 and undated; most of them in Italian. Several hundred pages in folio. Very important file of manuscripts on Tuscany during the Empire. States of the population in the kingdom of Etruria (1803). File on the administrative division and population of the communes: Riquadratura delle Comunità della Toscana (1808). Lecture on ancient geography given by Baillou at the Societa Colombaria in Florence (29 April 1812). Dissertation on the drafting of a cadastre in Tuscany, with a letter from Baillou to the vice-president of the Academy of Georgofili (1818). Geometric and cadastral surveys (latitudes, hectares) of various places in the Arno, Mediterranean and Ombrone departments. Dossier on the conversion of the old Tuscan measure of surface area, to the new French metric system, etc. Posters and placards giving official rates of currency, weight, alcohol. Correspondence issued and received by Baillou, appointments to the geographical service, etc.