HISTORIANS & SCHOLARS. About forty letters. - Lot 206

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HISTORIANS & SCHOLARS. About forty letters. - Lot 206
HISTORIANS & SCHOLARS. About forty letters. - Francis WEY (Besançon 1812-1882), archivist and historian, president of the Société des Gens de Lettres. 20 L.A.S. to Oscar de Watteville. Evian, Louveciennes, Paris, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Avignon, Rome and Lucerne, 1855-1880. 31 pp. various sizes. Some envelopes. Friendly correspondence, his travels, his works. Comments on the Christian Art and the volumes devoted to Michelangelo, on his worldly and dissolute life. "I run the risk of being too handsome, since tonight I will join my wife at Monsieur Mourier's where there is a Soirade, as the Phocaeans of the Canebière say. From there, we return to sleep on avenue Gabrielle. Thus, commission, dinner with friends, orgy at the Sorbonne & unpacking: thus continue eighteen years of corruption [] ". Long letter from Rome about the establishment of a school of archaeology, long letter from Lucerne about his trip to Italy and the Alps. - Joseph Héliodore GARCIN DE TASSY (1794-1878), orientalist and Indianist, co-founder of the Société Asiatique. 7 L.A.S. to various, 1854-1871 and s.d. To the librarian of Napoleon III Lefèvre Deumier (requesting an imperial audience), to Frémery of the Ecole des langues orientales (on the translation into Persian and Arabic of the "novel of Sindibad"), to Benj. Duprat (order of works on India), on the research of works by S. de Sacy, etc. Also included is a letter written during his exile at Arcisse de Caumont's home 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 to the Institute), Paul Dubois, Eugène de Rozière (long letter evoking 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 s.d. To the bookseller Michaud (sending his new maps of Poland and Russia), to "M. le comte" (asking for Napoleon's help "I will also beg you [] to expose to H.M. that to the merit of having chosen the two artists who executed the globe, I joined the merit of a lot of work and drawings, indispensable for this object"), also about the delivery of deliveries of the Encyclopaedia, the sale of his publications (3 pp.), etc.
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