Alexis de GOURGUES. Set of autograph notes, ca. 80 pp. in-4. - Lot 54

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Alexis de GOURGUES. Set of autograph notes, ca. 80 pp. in-4. - Lot 54
Alexis de GOURGUES. Set of autograph notes, ca. 80 pp. in-4. Important set of notes taken by Alexis de Gourgues, often from journals or books, some accompanied by ink drawings: on the existence of man at the time when the reindeer and the beaver inhabited Belgium, deposit of volcanoes in Latium, Iron Age necropolis in Latium, habitation under the lava of the primitive crater in Santorini (with drawing of a vase), articles by Lartet, the cave of Bize by M. Gervais, blade of fossil ivory found at the Madeleine, flints in the red diluvium of St Acheul, cave of Badegol by Jouannet, cut flints of the Somme, the Sacred Mount test by Dr Bleicher (with sketch), etc. Attached : 2 brochures by Alexis de Gourgues (Sur quelques questions relatives à l'époque celtique - 1859, and Observations au sujet de la notice historique sur la linde - 1867), a letter from Henry de Gourgues written from Abbeville, and a copy of the Manuel du jeune archéologue by abbé Lacuire, with a sending from the author to Alexis de Gourgues (cover damaged).
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